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Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software (2016) by belorn on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @03:45AM (#17235674)
RMS has also often said that software freedom is just a synonym for software liberty, ie that those have exact same meaning and that the only reason he use the word freedom instead of liberty is that the United States has a political platform which the American people associate with the word liberty, and RMS wanted to disassociate the free software movement from US politics so to not alienate the other side of the political spectrum.

Who made up the definition of Liberty? Not RMS. Was he first to use Freedom as a synonym to Liberty? I doubt it. It is imperfect but both words is commonly used interchangeable when talking about the philosophical concept of freedom and liberty so the question I have is why the distinction is important?

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Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software (2016) by AstralStorm on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @03:51AM (#17235703)
It is like the difference between liberty with right to dissent and one without. System with laws vs system that is strictly case based.

FSF definition was made strictly to prevent embrace, extend, extinguish actions (especially the last) and GPL was improved over time to close holes that allow this. (Affero, GPL3)

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