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by dingledork69 1141 days ago
No. That's just some people who registered a website and put up their organizations definition. The website milk.com doesn't get to define what the word milk means, either.

To some people Open Source means that the Source is publicly viewable. It doesn't say anything about your rights to use it commercially. This is why people often bring up definitions such as "libre", "free as in beer" or "free as in speech"
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justinclift 1141 days ago
Heh, yeah good luck with that.

The real question is why are you trying to muddy the waters of the existing term, rather than inventing your own term and getting people to use that?

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dingledork69 1140 days ago
Like I already explained to you, not everyone agrees on the definition of open source. You have your definition, the open source foundation has theirs, and other people have their own. It is not a well defined term.

Why are you pretending you get to define the english language for everyone?

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justinclift 1140 days ago
Yeah, good luck with that. :)
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