The 5th annual conference on Linux/Open Source on Wall Street convenes today "to explore the adoption of key open source technologies by Wall Street and the financial markets."

Meanwhile, a few miles down I-95, Richard Stallman just explained to Univ. of MD students that free software is not a contrast between business models but "a matter of good vs. evil". He also made quite clear that his interests and intentions are not those of the corporate backers and users of Linux:

Don’t confuse free software with the open software movement, Stallman pleads. The open source movement is a development of the 1990s to supplant the ethical concerns embodied in the free software movement. The primary concern of open source is practical development of software, rather than ethical development and use.

So - tell me again why the Linux community should adopt Stallman's GPLv3, which represents the views of the "free" wing, rather than the "open" wing? And tell me again why the financial community should want to prevent Linux and Windows from working together?

Something in opensourceland does not compute, here.

Thanks to NewsForge for the links.