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by paxys 1098 days ago
People who owned and had access to ENIAC could load and run any software they wanted on it. They did not have to fight with an app store support agent for months over arbitrary rules only to get their software rejected. That's what open means.
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So you think "convincing the army that your software should be run" is open?

The word is meaningless as you use it.

They certainly had to fight the librarian to install something on ENIAC.