[teddyh]

Sometimes old words and terms acquire new meanings. The only meaning “Open Source” had before the OSI was the intelligence “open sources” meaning. Is this the only meaning of “Open Source” you accept? If not, what is your definition, and why should that prevail over the OSI definition?

[HDThoreaun]

I accept that different people think it means different things, which makes me want to create a new phrase that doesn't already have a meaning. open software? Not sure, but communication is hard when you co-opt phrases that have intuitive meaning and try to supercede that.

[teddyh]

Whatever meaning you have in mind, I’m pretty sure there’s already a term for it. What is the meaning that you want to express?

[naniwaduni]

Unfortunately, phrases are made of words that mean things.