The purity of good ideas always get co-opted by cynical actors wearing the clothes of the ideals without having the ideals themselves. At the core, all these go

The purity of good ideas always get co-opted by cynical actors wearing the clothes of the ideals without having the ideals themselves. At the core, all these good ideas have in them a spirit of cooperation and trust. The trust is eroded over time to exploit the cooperation inherit in it while not incurring the cost of participation. At that point, the words lose their meaning. You can see this worldwide with "democratic republic of" or, in our industry, "agile". Whatever meaning they once had is gone and will not return. In order to avoid this problem, you need to either use the entire expanded definition to be precise or create a new word that is associated only with your community. Expanding the definition of a shorthand, like "open", you never really achieve much because culture lives in the shorthand. Only true believer types like Stallman will insist on it for any length of time. Therefore, whatever comes next in the non-cynical world of software would have to come from a new movement with a new vocabulary. The new values always rhyme with the old but are expressed differently to more directly disarm the new cynical malignancies that have killed the old good ideas. The struggle is a forever arms race against parasitic participants in the global iterative prisoner's dilemma we're all playing. It's not about what is called "open". New words with new community values need to replace it. Open is dead.