[romwell]

>isn’t this the old: free as in speech, not as in beer

Hardly. Free beer and free speech do have different meanings, but freeware isn't something you have to pay for because it's "free as in beer".

In OpenAI's case, "open" isn't open as in anything normally associated with the word in the context.

Open as in private club during business hours for VIP members only is how they are trying to explain it, but understandbly, some people aren't buying it.