Stop opensource now! I’m not open! I’m free as in freedom!
Following Florian Haas post on FSFE, I want to replay here my own comment.
I think the nineties saw a poor marketing of free as in freedom. Therefore the term “open source” was necessary to spread the word. And I agree it was an incorrect word.
Latest years saw a pretty good popularity of free software and a wide spread of open source. And open source is still important for the spread to keep on.
More and more users understand it is not just open source and it is quite impossible to find someone from the technical who doesn’t know what Linux is.
It is a task of the old users, those who NOW use free software, to help young users understand the different meanings of the words in the FOSS acronym.
And to invite new users by talking to them about freedom (and national finance): maybe the time is more ripe now.