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Have you not heard of the OSI? I think they may beg to differ on that.

• woodruffw 4y ago
  Of course I've heard of the OSI. I don't understand why I'm particularly bound to their definition of open source, given that both the phrase and the concept predate the OSI, likely by decades.
  • ghaff 4y ago
    Why do you care? You have a particular vision of how your software should be able to be used. Why do you care if it's "open source" or not? At least with companies, I understand the reason for marketing purposes to be perceived as open source. I'm not sure I understand why an individual maintainer of a project is so desperate to be seen as being open source if it doesn't conform to their vision.
    • woodruffw 4y ago
      Why does anybody care about anything? It’s certainly not life or death for me; I guess I feel like it’s an unnecessary restriction of what “open source” could (and maybe even ought to) mean. I’m not desperate to be perceived any way in the OSS community; I do plenty of work on projects that satisfy the OSI’s definition, and that will never change. But I also don’t see why the work I do, which I do for the public and not for corporations, which is open in the most literal sense of the word, can’t be rightfully called open source.