I recently started listening to an InfoSec podcast and there's an interesting conflict of terms going on in terms of journalist/hacker/analyst/researcher use of

I recently started listening to an InfoSec podcast and there's an interesting conflict of terms going on in terms of journalist/hacker/analyst/researcher use of the term "open source". It seems like "Open Source" can be an answer to the question "What's your source on that information?" And "open source" means it's freely available public information vs say a private interview or information acquired with a warrant or wiretap or freedom of information request. Based on that use case and how careful journalists need to be about sources, I suspect journalists etc were using the term first. And I suspect Perens encountered it in that domain first and applied it to software. But I honestly have no idea. Open Source is a pretty dumb term. Free Software is also a dumb term for other reasons. It's a pity.