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  • BURN@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Not 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.

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      1 year ago

      Exactly. Also it is interesting how I am getting downvoted while you are getting upvoted - even though we are saying the same thing.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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        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.

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        There’s a reason RMS hates the term “open source”. Open source is a cheaper imitation of Free software.