How a Low-Level Apple Employee Leaked Some of the iPhone's Most Sensitive Code

Re:How a Low-Level Apple Employee Leaked Some of the iPhone'... by rileymat2 on Saturday February 10, 2018 @09:11AM (#16347329)

Obviously thay cannot stop you from misusing a term. I used to believe like you that the definition was more broad like you indicated. But the people who coined it had a narrower free software defintion in mind.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software

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Re:How a Low-Level Apple Employee Leaked Some of the iPhone'... by ryanlol on Saturday February 10, 2018 @10:30AM (#16347684)

The fight over the meaning of "Open source" was lost by OSI almost two decades ago.

Here's a 2002 version of their website essentially admitting as much: https://web.archive.org/web/20021001164015/http://www.openso...

>The OSI Certified mark is OSI's way of certifying that the license under which the software is distributed conforms to the OSD; the generic term "Open Source" cannot provide that assurance, but we still encourage use of the term "Open Source" to mean conformance to the OSD.

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