I have found "it's open source" to be a real-life meaningless response to "I prefer tools that I am likely able to have a significant amount of autonomous contr

I have found "it's open source" to be a real-life meaningless response to "I prefer tools that I am likely able to have a significant amount of autonomous control over in the future." The software market has very effectively figured out how to make things "open source" in name only (offhand, Canvas is the one that's killing me these days), and unfortunately now all such claims must be taken with a huge grain of salt.