Re: [OSS] Re: [rms@gnu.org...] + Viet Linux-FAQ

However, i just read this in free-software-for-freedom.html (URL above):

For the Open Source movement, non-free software is a suboptimal
solution. For the Free Software movement, non-free software is
a social problem and free software is the solution.

Your long comment on that statement seems not to connect with the
issue. You argue against insisting on the optimal solution. I more
or less agree with you, but it doesn't relate here.

The open source movement views this as a matter of being more or less
optimal. Your comment might relate to their point of view. We in the
free software movement do not view the matter in those terms.

Non-free software is an evil, like war, dictatorship, poverty, and
injustice. I don't know if we can ever totally eliminate non-free
software, any more than I know if we can ever totally eliminate war,
dictatorship, poverty and injustice. The point is to recognize
non-free software as an evil, as something to be eliminated. Then we
do the best we can.

We have had quite a bit of success (though people often don't know
this because they are told our work was done as "open source").
Rather than worry about speculations that we cant succeed, let's
do what we can.

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