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Words mean things, unfortunately.

• auggierose 2y ago
  And a definition is for creating new meaning, luckily. Just as the definition of "open source".
  • card_zero 2y ago
    Which one?
    • auggierose 2y ago
      I like the Obsidian one: Obsidian is open-source, because it is based on Electron, and therefore you can read its source. https://forum.obsidian.md/t/is-it-true-that-obsidian-is-already-open-source/46413 https://forum.obsidian.md/t/is-it-true-that-obsidian-is-alre...
  • naniwaduni 2y ago
    Yeah, there's a reason we keep having trouble with that one.
• KingMob 2y ago
  Meaning things is not the problem. The issue is word overloading. “Free software” curtails certain freedoms of downstream users. “Open source” means more than just the source being open to view. And this is fine! But people have gotten so used to their definitions they forget to apply the same criteria to “fair source”.