Ah, I see. It's just that to me that's a settled discussion and it seems to have been for a few decades now. Free software has to be open source to be free. But not all open source software is free software. That we agree on. It seems we just have different interpretations of the history. If you bother to read the free software manifesto, stallman actually uses the term open source and it also defines that free software must be open to allow three of the four fundamental freedoms to exist. Your objections seem to be political rather than philosophical. E.g. who gets to decide or control what projects are defined as what.