[throwie_wayward]

FOSS was never about open source, it was about freedom and liberty.

It is supposed to advocate a lack of restrictions upon what users can do to the software to balance against what software can do to the users, or more importantly, forbid the users from doing at all. (or permit doing with varying levels of convenience/inconvenience).

but then, with a debate that software is better made in an open source development/collaboration style, and a political and economical state-society built around exclusivity and deceitful exploitation, there's no discourse around freedom left near the open-closed source debate.

also, the earlier FOSS advocates (GNU crowd) thought they could 'hack' the system and use one of its own tools, specifically copyright laws, in order to 'trick' (hacker mindset) the law system into guaranteeing that the software was not going to be locked down and turned to work against the users. It's become clear now (in retrospect) it did not work.