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

[lcerf]

I disagree.

The free software movement is attached to the users' freedoms. Not to the  
software. Its license is fundamental though: it must respect the four  
essential freedoms of the users. The way the program was developed does not  
matter at all.

On the contrary, the open source movement is attached to a development method  
(transparency, peer reviewing, etc.), which is supposed to generate software  
that is technically better. If not, open source proponents use proprietary  
software. The license of the software is not as fundamental to them: the open  
source movement criticizes free software whose development is done behind  
closed doors.

Like onpon4 wrote above, that basically is the difference between "free  
software" and "open source": A difference in the values that are defended,  
hence a fundamental difference.