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Open-source and FOSS mean the same thing. Any software that’s not Free Software is not open source. The only difference between the two terms is in the philosop
by School-Cotton 2y ago
Open-source and FOSS mean the same thing. Any software that’s not Free Software is not open source. The only difference between the two terms is in the philosophy/ideology of the people who use them, not in their actual denotative meaning.
If you describe source-available proprietary software as “open source” you are using the term differently from practically everyone else, including the people who coined it.
- HDThoreaun 2y agoopen source is very simple. It means you can freely read the source code. Thats it. Its in the name. If you want to add all these addendums you need a phrase that doesnt have intuitive meaning.
- School-Cotton 2y agoRegardless of how intuitive you think it is, that’s not what it means, and not what anybody has been using it to mean since the 90s at least.