versus OSI issue is primary of interest to developers. The FSF was more relevant when most of the people using GPL'd software were developers. These days, most users of software have no use for the source. I think that now, the OSI is more relevant because Open Source is a good way to create good software. The end-users don't care about the licence; they just want software that works well. To consider an extreme case, I, personally, think that Open Source code in closed source for-profit software is great! It makes for better software and gets more Open Source software actually being used. Eventually, hopefully, businesses will want to contribute more money and/or manpower to Open Source projects because they want bugs fixed and/or features added. As I see it, this is the way of the future. I don't know any statistics about it but a lot of people are using Firefox and believe that it is safer than MS Internet Explorer. There is a vast amount of GPL'd code out there -- and, it seems a lot of developers that care about the GPL. But developers are becoming a smaller and smaller proportion of people that use software. I've made a kind of flowchart based on the above post of mine, crystallizing my thoughts on this issue further, but I am unable to post it here. I'll probably write a post on my blog and would love your (and others') thoughts on it. &gt;2. Complete rejection of proprietary software,