[jay_kyburz]

Can you explain what you mean? As far as I'm aware, ethics has always been the central issue?

[zitsarethecure]

ESR was pretty clear about their stance on it in this interview:

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/article_246jsp/

Personally, I think the argument that "open source is a better way to engineer software" has largely proven to be untrue and FOSS' only advantage has been in protecting the rights of end users (who may also be developers).