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> They (and you) are free to call whatever this license is something else I am also free to call it open source.
by Kiro 3y ago
> They (and you) are free to call whatever this license is something else
I am also free to call it open source.
- ninjin 3y ago[flagged]
- simjnd 3y agoIndeed, you're free to call a pig a horse.
- mycall 3y agoMr. Porse is the most famous Porse of all.
- EarlKing 3y ago"‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean–neither more nor less.’ ‘The question is,’ said Alice, ‘whether you can make words mean different things–that’s all.’ ‘The question is,’ said Humpty Dumpty, ‘which is to be master–that’s all’" -- Humpty Dumpty to Alice, _Through the Looking Glass_ See https://www.arp242.net/open-source.html https://www.arp242.net/open-source.html for an actual historical definition of open source, free of corporate propaganda.
- zarathustreal 3y agoTrue, but surely you wouldn't intentionally label yourself ignorant? Also, wouldn't you consider willfully spreading false information rather insidious?
- Pannoniae 3y agoIt's not false information. OSI doesn't own a trademark for "open source".