Guy on Nostr: No, Richard Stallman is the founder of the Free Software Foundation. ...
No, Richard Stallman is the founder of the Free Software Foundation. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html lays out the ideas.
He emphasizes the moral case for Free Software versus the Open Source folks emphasizing the practical or technical case for Open Source Software. There has always been confusion over the word "Free" in "Free Software" and "Open" now suffers the same problem (look at all these LLM licenses claiming to be Open Source), and I think "Freedom Tech" is a pretty good way of talking about the same thing.
The Free/Libre Open Source Software community has a lot of overlap and similarity but can be split into two camps:
1. I am truly free if I am allowed to contract myself into slavery (BSD-ish, permissive licensing).
2. It is not freedom to be allowed to contract myself into slavery (GNU-ish, copyleft licensing).
Maybe that's an unfair or unrealistic characterization but that's how I tend to think of it.
I disagree with a lot of Stallman's views (he's on the left) but the four software freedoms are legit. See Stephan Kinsella's excellent summary of similar views from a more right-libertarian perspective at https://mises.org/library/book/against-intellectual-property
He emphasizes the moral case for Free Software versus the Open Source folks emphasizing the practical or technical case for Open Source Software. There has always been confusion over the word "Free" in "Free Software" and "Open" now suffers the same problem (look at all these LLM licenses claiming to be Open Source), and I think "Freedom Tech" is a pretty good way of talking about the same thing.
The Free/Libre Open Source Software community has a lot of overlap and similarity but can be split into two camps:
1. I am truly free if I am allowed to contract myself into slavery (BSD-ish, permissive licensing).
2. It is not freedom to be allowed to contract myself into slavery (GNU-ish, copyleft licensing).
Maybe that's an unfair or unrealistic characterization but that's how I tend to think of it.
I disagree with a lot of Stallman's views (he's on the left) but the four software freedoms are legit. See Stephan Kinsella's excellent summary of similar views from a more right-libertarian perspective at https://mises.org/library/book/against-intellectual-property