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Re:Android++, native development and debugging for Visual St... by jknightco on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @06:53PM (#10847163)
I believe you're confusing Open Source with Free Software. Open Source literally means the source is openly accessible.
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Re:Android++, native development and debugging for Visual St... by hvis on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @08:49PM (#10847845)
No, it doesn't. No matter what certain closed-source companies might want you to believe.

There is a difference between Open Source and Free Software, but it's ideological, not technical (as pertaining to the rights granted to the users of the software).

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Re:Android++, native development and debugging for Visual St... by alexvoda on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @10:37PM (#10848321)
Both of you are right and wrong at the same time. Fighting about this terminology is unproductive. See my comment above ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10848308 ).
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Re:Android++, native development and debugging for Visual St... by wolfgke on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @12:59PM (#10852173)
> I believe you're confusing Open Source with Free Software. Open Source literally means the source is openly accessible.

This is what shared source is about. Open source is nearly always used as defined by the OSI:

> https://opensource.org/osd

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