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by throw_m239339 1624 days ago
open source =/= free software.

That's the first mistake you are making.

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The differences between the two are extremely minimal, basically only relating to patent rights relating to the software. Go read https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html - the FSF's Free Software definition, and https://opensource.org/osd - the Open Source Definition (both by the respective parties that coined the terms and maintain them to this day) and see what the actual differences are. They're not many.
While they are indeed sightly different, I fail to see how the differences are at all relevant in this context.