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"Open as in beer," if I may.
by hunter2_ 7y ago
"Open as in beer," if I may.
- LandR 7y ago> "Open as in beer," if I may. What does this mean?
- sturza 7y agoFree as in beer
- tialaramex 7y agoWell, do you want to drink an open can of beer? You go into a bar, you order the IPA you liked someplace else, you see they've got a heap of cans... the bartender reaches under the bar and hands you... an open can. No right? You don't want that one. Why the hell is it open?
- tW4r 7y agoI understood it this way: OpenTable sounds like it would be open-source, but it appears that it isn't I think the parent comment to yours made a sarcastic take using a variation of the popular ambiguity Free as in Beer [1] that usually differentiates between free as 0 cost and free as freedom as a reaction to the OpenTable software being free to use rather than open-source [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre
- hunter2_ 7y agoHeh
- code_duck 7y agoI think they mean 'open' as in nobody is dining at that table and it's available, not a reference to software development processes.
- hunter2_ 7y agoIndeed. Just highlighting the correlation between possibly-nefarious software and non-libre software.