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Not wanting to be a dick, but you could have chosen a less misleading name for the software considering it doesn't meet the Open Source Definition.
by halo 18y ago
Not wanting to be a dick, but you could have chosen a less misleading name for the software considering it doesn't meet the Open Source Definition.
- wagerlabs 18y agoIt did a few years ago and I kept the name since then.
- tlrobinson 18y agoWhile it may not be "free software" or "Open Source" (with capital letters) it's "open source" in the broader sense of the phrase. Not to mention Open Source (proper) hardly has a monopoly on the "Open" prefix.
- davidw 18y agoNo one used "open source" to describe stuff with the source code available until the term came out to describe free software with a marketing friendly name. People who use 'open source' to describe what is proprietary code with source available are often just trying to confuse things. To be clear, he is not doing that, he's just using 'open', which is fair game, I suppose.
- michaelneale 18y agoThe term "Open" was used for non open source software many years ago - I think in the mid/late nineties there was a rash of it. If anything it was meant to imply "flexible", "new and fresh" and in rare cases, using open standards or able to be integrated with (often in the context of enterprise ERP type of stuff I am thinking mainly). Not that its a good thing, but it does kind of have a precedent, FWIW ;)