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"Open source" has a precise definition [1], and your comment does not use the term correctly. [1] https://opensource.org/osd https://opensource.org/osd In par
by hollerith 7y ago
"Open source" has a precise definition [1], and your comment does not use the term correctly.
[1] https://opensource.org/osd https://opensource.org/osd
In particular, if the software or "work" was never made freely available by its lawful owner, it is not open source.
- oil25 7y agoBill wrote his letter 21 years before this definition materialized and it actually served to inspire the free software/open source concept altogether. > There is a viable alternative to the problems raised by Bill Gates in his irate letter to computer hobbyists concerning "ripping off" software. When software is free, or so inexpensive that it's easier to pay for it than to duplicate it, then it won't be "stolen". —Jim Warren, July 1976