You are going to have a difficult life experience if you cling to the idea that things have to make sense from a linguistic perspective where most others seem t

You are going to have a difficult life experience if you cling to the idea that things have to make sense from a linguistic perspective where most others seem to have found acceptance in how things are interpreted and used in the real world. Words are context sensitive. Openness here refers to the user freedoms, which go beyond the permission to read but not reuse. Source that is merely available could be regarded as dangerous, if you happen to later copy ideas from the proprietary origin in your own implementation without even being aware of it. I could see the point in trying to stay away from it as programmer. Good thing we’re not debating the term “free software“… ;-)