The term "open source" itself explains the problem. It was originally called free software, which is admittedly confusing in English, but also inconvenient for

The term "open source" itself explains the problem. It was originally called free software, which is admittedly confusing in English, but also inconvenient for corporations who wanted to exploit it. Because it's not a huge issue whether free software was libre or gratis, because practically all of it was both libre and gratis. But if you're a company, you like neither the libre nor the gratis. So it was rebranded to "open source" precisely to market it to businesses. https://producingoss.com/en/introduction.html#free-vs-open-source https://producingoss.com/en/introduction.html#free-vs-open-s...