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by latexr 570 days ago
> Yet no one calls their homemade food a product

Just like no one calls food at a restaurant a product, despite it being paid. But it is a product. You’re nitpicking the example to explain a concept instead of the argument.

> No. They make fun because people use terms like open-source to mean more than just a source that is open.

That is nonsensical. It’s like saying people make fun of Lord of the Rings fans because of how they pronounce Balrog. You need to be inside the community to understand the nuance of it in the first place.

While you believe people make fun of the movement for something so subtle, you won’t be able to change their mind.

> Lengthy, yes, but also pretty clear.

Also pretty dead in the water. No one would have called it that, ever. With such a name you’d either have doomed the movement before it started or everyone would have called it something else instead.