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A comment on Stallman’s Law. Parent comment

Re:Stallman’s Law by jackmott on Sunday November 27, 2016 @11:13PM (#13053362)
Well, the source being open means that you are free, if only because any mistreatment occurring, you can open up VIM and delete it.

You can be sure I would have done that with MS Office and OneDrive in the File menu, or reboots without permission on Windows 10 if I could.

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Re:Stallman’s Law by cyphar on Sunday November 27, 2016 @11:17PM (#13053375)
While Free Software and "Open Source" usually refer to the same software, they have different ethical views and have different reasoning behind why software should be free software[1].

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point....

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Re:Stallman’s Law by tscs37 on Monday November 28, 2016 @06:20AM (#13054732)
Did you perhaps mean "different reasoning behind why software should be open source/free software/free code"?
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