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I didn't say it was the same movement. I said it was the same software.

The DRM point you make is nuanced. There can be free DRM implementations -- it would just mean that users could modify the software to remove the DRM. If the DRM is implemented in hardware, like tivoisation, then it is indeed no longer free. I think open source advocates, if they still exist (the open source movement seems dormant because it has "won"), might consider that to be open source. Stallman certainly thinks they would:

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-open-overlap.html




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