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by Delk 1100 days ago
Where does this consensus of considering open source to mean the same as source available exist? I certainly haven't seen any such consensus anywhere.

Or is it just a consensus you assume to be there based on the assumption that people in general would just take the words at face value?

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Can't edit anymore, so replying to self instead. But now that I look at it again, it seems you aren't saying the face value meaning of the words "open source" would be the consensus either, just that the OSI-style meaning isn't common enough to be considered consensus either.

Which I suppose is fair enough, and it seems like I may have originally replied to something you didn't say. I'd still disagree both about the lack of a consensus, based on my general experience, and about the meaning.