You know, they berate him for a comment that starts: Now just to relay my bias,
Don't they realize their reaction is as bad as his understatement of Free?
And I am personally offended that Stallman misses his own point. He states "The open source campaign doesn't present freedom as an ethical issue, but it still formulates its criteria in terms of what users are permitted to do," yet what users are NOT permitted to do is the main reason many people avoid GPL in the first place.
In addition, if you follow the provided Wiki link, you will see that the acronymn was started with the monetary aspect being what Free meant: Technological and socio-economic changes known as the "New Information Society/Economy" are re-introducing the notion of production, consumption and trade of goods and services without the direct or obvious involvement of money. Such "non-monetary/trans-monetary" economic activity is difficult to measure through usual monetary indicators. This project aims to remedy this situation by identifying and developing indicators of such activity through a case study of OS/FS: Open Source/Free Software., so technically, when Schwartz said that the letter F in FOSS, he was being more accurate than Stallman who later borrowed and modified the meaning.
I am personally sick and tired of people arguing about the definition of Free software or Open software. Screw them all -- make everything Public Domain.
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