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by perryizgr8 1115 days ago
> Luckily to prevent everybody interpreting sounds and glyphs as they wish, we -as a civilization- agreed to adhere to certain standards of how things would be interpreted.

Exactly. I'm for using definitions of words as they are commonly understood. The other definition relies on arbitrary conditions totally unrelated to the English meanings of the words being used.

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> Exactly. I'm for using definitions of words as they are commonly understood.

No you are not. Open source in the context of computing has a definition that is commonly understood. Why then are you using definition of that word that is not commonly understood?