Describing the outcomes in terms of functions over shell states, as you have, is the quickest and most transparent way of demonstrating that they aren’t the same.

The article was a fun “scenic route” to the same conclusion, though.

Oh so you’re saying the companies are not altruistic? I’d agree. I thought you were saying that the people making the FOSS were not being altruistic.

How does a corporation using it obstruct independent developers from using it under the same license? I don’t see a compelling case for them being mutually exclusive

And they are mutually exclusive, in your eyes?

Is giving away your software in a way that doesn’t use a copyleft license, not altruistic? Seems like a pretty narrow definition.