Not according to Stallman, he argues that the motivation of "open source" is not freedom but practicality.

"[Free software and Open source] describe almost the same category of software, but they stand for views based on fundamentally different values. For the free software movement, free software is an ethical imperative, essential respect for the users' freedom. By contrast, the philosophy of open source considers issues in terms of how to make software “better”—in a practical sense only. It says that nonfree software is an inferior solution to the practical problem at hand."

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html

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