Comment on Why do all these companies developing privatised software use the word "Open"? Real question.
BURN@lemmy.world 1 year agoNot sure why you’re being downvoted. By definition this is true.
Visible source is still open source , but it isn’t FOSS. Not everything open source is FOSS, but everything FOSS is open source.
I can’t imagine the downvoting being except a disagreement with that word usage. Strictly speaking words do not have definitions which are “true” in some innate sense - they have usages which are popular or unpopular among different groups of people.
The term “open source” without any context describes “source” being “open” - as clear as mud. With context that describes a range of licenses and the disagreement is in which licenses that includes.
It’s quite ironic to see people getting confused over it, since part of the justifications for the creation of the “open source” term was “free software” being ambiguous.
This guy is deliberately being malicious
There’s a reason RMS hates the term “open source”. Open source is a cheaper imitation of Free software.
gloriousspearfish@feddit.dk 1 year ago
Exactly.