Comment on Why do all these companies developing privatised software use the word "Open"? Real question.

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tabular@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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.

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