I know of two director level folks (they were promoted from being devs, but not geeky enough to read HN or dev blogs) who would repeatedly use 'open source' onl

I know of two director level folks (they were promoted from being devs, but not geeky enough to read HN or dev blogs) who would repeatedly use 'open source' only as a full synonym for 'free of charge' in multiple conversations about tools and paying for them. For example when comparing software, "we need to pay for X but Y is open source".