On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 11:02 PM, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

> Please don't think of Emacs as an "open source project".
> That would give you the wrong idea of what our goals are.
>

​More accurate might have been "free or open source projects".

That said my phrase was not meant to reference in any way the
goals of any of those projects.  Only that each conducts its
development in the open with source code and communications​
accessible to all.

Would you like to suggest some better phrase I might use in
the future when referring to such a collection?

/john