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Re:What’s up with these new not-open source licenses? by nemothekid on Thursday March 18, 2021 @08:45PM (#26509150)
>Do we really need a ‘legally clear’ definition of open source and free software?

The FSF has gone to great lengths to give a legally clear definition of free software. Something like the SSPL is not free software because it restricts Amazon's freedom to use the software. Stallman has always had an ideological goal when it came to Free software.

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Re:What’s up with these new not-open source licenses? by akagusu on Thursday March 18, 2021 @09:42PM (#26509444)
Not just Stallman, but OSI was founded with an ideological goal too. It's goal is to strip ethics from software development and focus solely on technical and economical output for companies while Stallman and FSF had focused exactly on the ethics of software development.
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