Re: [Trisquel-users] I've probably misunderstood the difference between the open source, and the free software movements

[lcerf]

If we did not have signifiers like "free software" or "open source", there  
would be whole categories of things we might be able to think about in the  
isolation of our own minds, but we wouldn't easily be able to think about  
them together in dialogue, as we are doing in this thread.

Not only "think" but also "communicate" in a meaningful way. Because "free  
software" and "open source" stand for different values, we need both words  
and ought to use the one that is appropriate. If we want to be inclusive and  
talk about the values that are common to them, FLOSS is appropriate.