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Why do all these companies developing privatised software use the word "Open"? Real question. (lemmy.cat)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[โ€“] tabular 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I can't imagine the downvoting being anything other than 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 software licenses and the disagreement is in which licenses that includes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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.