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That’s nice. If your goal is to ever talk to people about open source software, that’s going to create a lot of unnecessary confusion.

On top of that, accepting this bolsters companies to use this kind of a definition specifically to take advantage of the mental model that many people have connecting “open source” with OSI.

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If your goal is to ever talk to people about open source software, that’s going to create a lot of unnecessary confusion.

I guess that my definition of open source is not that uncommon, given that the terms “free software” and “libre software” exist and are rather well-established by this point.

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The fact that there is overlap has no bearing on whether your definition is common.

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@tux0r You are right that this mistaken definition is quite common. Smart person would try to correct the mistake, not defend it.

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