[falcolas]

Do you consider Microsoft Windows, or Oracle database to be open source software? Because the source code is viewable (albeit under an NDA).

Open source does have a specific meaning, and twisting it like this does nobody any favors.

[thrower123]

No, I'm well aware of what open-source is supposed to mean, as opposed to shared-source or whatever the proper term is for that type of arrangement.

I just try to deal with the world as it is, and the damage has been done already to the popular meaning of the term. I don't have the energy or interest to tilt at this particular wind-mill, so at this point if somebody says something is open-source, unless I have prior knowledge of what they think open-source means, I can't really infer anything in particular, and have to ask some more questions.

[icebraining]

Sure. And plenty of companies have stretched thin the definition of "free" or "unlimited". But that doesn't mean we have to accept that as OK.