Joshua M 🇦🇺<p>I would argue the greater mistake was rebranding <a href="https://linuxrocks.online/tags/freesoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freesoftware</span></a> and forming a dull corporate entity known as the <a href="https://linuxrocks.online/tags/opensourceinitiative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opensourceinitiative</span></a>. Open source as a term* has always been poorly defined despite being legally identical to Free/Libre; and the ideas of <a href="https://linuxrocks.online/tags/freeculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freeculture</span></a> <a href="https://linuxrocks.online/tags/cyberlibertarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cyberlibertarian</span></a> and <a href="https://linuxrocks.online/tags/freespeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freespeech</span></a> cannot be divorced from <a href="https://linuxrocks.online/tags/freelibresoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freelibresoftware</span></a> </p><p>*(referring to how its colloquially spoken— neither word in "open source" implies or evokes freedom in any way; it sounds more like "source available" than <a href="https://linuxrocks.online/tags/liberty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>liberty</span></a> to me.)</p><p><a href="https://linuxrocks.online/@freedomtux/113970456621349439" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">linuxrocks.online/@freedomtux/</span><span class="invisible">113970456621349439</span></a> ( <a href="https://x.com/esrtweet/status/1886894357451866309" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">x.com/esrtweet/status/18868943</span><span class="invisible">57451866309</span></a> ) <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bird.makeup/users/esrtweet" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>esrtweet</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://linuxrocks.online/tags/freesoftwarefoundation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freesoftwarefoundation</span></a> <a href="https://linuxrocks.online/tags/floss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>floss</span></a> <a href="https://linuxrocks.online/tags/freelibreopensourcesoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>freelibreopensourcesoftware</span></a></p>