Re:Social Networks: It's worse than you think (2020)
by lioeters on Sunday September 12, 2021 @07:25AM
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TIL:
> fauxpen source
> Etymology: a term invented by Phil Marsosudiro at a dinner party in North Carolina
> Date: 2 May 2009
> A description of software that claims to be open source, but lacks the full freedoms required by the Open Source Definition. http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php
> synonyms: see open core, neo-proprietary
> antonyms: see Linux kernel, Apache, OpenNMS
I mean, it’s still better than closed source SDKs with bugs unfixed for years and books written about working around them, but that would be a pretty low bar anyway.