> went open source, I don’t think it was ever, strictly speaking, open source. There was a time they offered a source code license for free to anyone who asked

> went open source, I don’t think it was ever, strictly speaking, open source. There was a time they offered a source code license for free to anyone who asked, but that wasn’t true “open source”, because among other reasons, you had no right to redistribute it. And then they discontinued that-which meant people who’d gotten the source that way could keep it, but anyone who had failed to take up that offer while it was available missed out, and those who had it distributing to others would be violating the license by doing so. If it had been truly open source, they could not have “turned off the tap” quite so easily.