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by mtmail 2347 days ago
> the user should trust a small core of the product [...] without access to the source code.

That's not open source then. You're watering down the meaning of open source for marketing.

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I guess my question was a bit unclear. We state upfront that our product is not open source because it is shipped with a proprietary part. It just builds on an open-source project.