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Lars Wirzenius

"Open source" has an actual definition. The definition is important. If you relax or ignore the definition, the term becomes meaningless.

A lot of people call things "open source" that aren't. Some are just lazy. When corporations do it, especially very large tech corporations like Meta, it's an attempt to make the term "open source" meaningless.

@liw Which is kind of ironic, because one reason why the term open source was coined was to get rid of the "Free" in Free Software and make the political aspects of Free Licensing meaningless.

@liw There are lots of companies that should release (or should be required to release) their source code—voting machines, car safety systems, anything with a camera or mic in your house—but that still wouldn't be what most people consider "open source" software.