[frezik]

Seems like ESR is still fighting the Open Source vs Free Software battle of the late 90s. It hasn't dawned on him yet that everyone else thinks that there's little purpose in cannibalizing the movement over minor philosophical differences.

[cwyers]

By "everybody else" I think you're excluding the people who run the Free Software Foundation, in other words the very people ESR was addressing.

[frezik]

Not really. Even RMS only mentions the distinction in passing. The fight has simply gone out of this one for everyone who isn't ESR, probably because the late 90s was the last time he was relevant.