[jazzyjackson]

RMS may have coined free software as a term and legal construct via licensing but he wasn’t the first to give software away for free

[akimbostrawman]

>but he wasn’t the first to give software away for free

They never claimed he was and it's irrelevant because free software has nothing to do with "giving software away for free"

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

[jazzyjackson]

Yea sounds like a marketing problem to try and take ownership of how a common word is used