> "Open" has also been extended to other areas, such as "open science" (which does not refer to science for which a paper is available, but to actual reusable s

> "Open" has also been extended to other areas, such as "open science" (which does not refer to science for which a paper is available, but to actual reusable science). That meaning predates the use of "open" to describe software, hence why "open source" isn't that great of a term for something truly new. It co-opts the much older term "open source" which means freely available through non-protected sources. Like, in the intelligence services "open sources" has meant non-classified, non-restricted sources. There's a similar meaning in journalism.