| No it's not, and yes it does. This trend on HN that has consisted in wanting to kill the meaning of "open source" as most people understand it is very weird and surprising. I don't understand what is at stake. I have noticed this since one month or so. The vast majority of projects that call themselves open source mean the open source definition as defined by the open source initiative, or something equivalent. You might not like or recognize the OSI and that's fine, but you can't decide what people mean when they say open source. You are the one starting the battle and I don't understand your motives. I just searched for "open source" in a search engine, I'm getting [1,2,3] and lists of "the best open source software". And they are all using the OSD. You are at odds with Wikipedia, IBM, RedHat and with Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple [4,5,6,7,8], and with everyone else, really. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source [2] https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/open-source/what-is-open-so... [3] https://www.ibm.com/en-en/topics/open-source [4] https://opensource.microsoft.com/ [5] https://opensource.google/ [6] https://aws.amazon.com/fr/opensource/ [7] https://opensource.fb.com/ [8] https://opensource.apple.com/ |