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Political Diversity Within Libre Software Development Communities

Within the larger libre software community, broadly defined freedom is interpreted very different by:

  • The free software movement (FSF, Richard Stallman, etc.) which emphasize freedom and a critique of the larger system of software intellectual property and emphasizes philosophical and civil libertarian advantages.

  • The Open Source movement (OSI, etc.) which focuses on libre software more as a development methodology than a social movement and emphasizes pragmatic advantages.