Corporations only care about corporate clients and don’t give a sht when I report bugs. They get put on the backburner, meanwhile with Blender I get an instant response everytime. I’m not used to reporting bugs and actually getting results. It makes me more confident and excited to use the software knowing any issues I face will prob be fixed if I report them.
GNU Manifesto published: 1985
(edit: he did that, by the way, because he had had access to the source code of their photocopier at MIT, and the company decided to stop providing that source, which was all the rage in 1985 as Microsoft bootstrapped capitalism, rather than the weird corporate hippiedom of the 70s, as the way of technology.)
Open Source Initiative formed: 1998. There was a manifesto of sorts around 1996 that I recall being the first time I heard people start to use Open Source instead of Free Software, and mash up the two into a single meme, when one them is completely about amputating the ethics of the other.
Ah, I see. It’s just that to me that’s a settled discussion and it seems to have been for a few decades now. Free software has to be open source to be free. But not all open source software is free software. That we agree on. It seems we just have different interpretations of the history. If you bother to read the free software manifesto, stallman actually uses the term open source and it also defines that free software must be open to allow three of the four fundamental freedoms to exist. Your objections seem to be political rather than philosophical. E.g. who gets to decide or control what projects are defined as what.