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Ian Bicking: a blog :: Toward a new self-definition for open source
And all this was before the term "open source" really took hold as a distinct idea. That itself is an interesting story. There was a time during this marketing period when there arose a kind of terminology divide — free software vs. open source software. The terminology divide was that the "free" in free software implied you couldn’t charge anything, that made people think about price, might even imply cheapness. Open source directly refers to programming, uses the feel-good term "open", and doesn’t sound too revolutionary. But besides that there was also a substantial philosophical difference about the value of the software itself.
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