In order to explain why people got so upset about us using the phrase “open source” for public software under a generally permissive license with a non-compete clause, let’s do a whirlwind tour of the history of the phrase “open source” before we look at where we are today. “Open Source” was simply a more business friendly rebranding to distance the practicalities of opening software from the more politically focused goals of Stallman and his movement in an effort to get more companies like Netscape to embrace the opening of professional source code. So now that the “Open Source” marketing approach worked so well that nearly every corporation is using and producing open source software, has the open source (and thus, free software) movement won?