D Language accepted for inclusion in GCC

Re:D Language accepted for inclusion in GCC by davexunit on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @11:33AM (#14604653)

"open source", no matter the capitalization, means what the OSI has defined. Unreal Engine is neither Open Source nor open source. It is simply proprietary. To say otherwise is a practice known as "open washing" that companies use to appear community friendly when in fact they are not.

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Re:D Language accepted for inclusion in GCC by mindcrime on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @11:46AM (#14604781)

This. While OSI may not have been successful in getting an official trademark on the phrase "Open Source", in practice almost everybody treats "Open Source" or "open source" as meaning what the Open Source Definition states. Other "source available" approaches are more correctly termed "shared source" or something.

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Re:D Language accepted for inclusion in GCC by wfunction on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @03:21PM (#14607047)

Since when does "open-source" mean "community-friendly"? Why insist on using words that don't say what you want them to mean, when you can use ones that do?

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