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Re:Why Wolfram tech isn’t open source (2019) by sidpatil on Saturday December 18, 2021 @11:41AM (#29605889)
The way I always understood it is that "open source" and "free software" are orthogonal concepts:

Open source = bazaar-style (highly-decentralized development)

Not open source = cathedral-style (highly-centralized development)

Free software = source code released under a license that grants rights such as freedom to modify, redistribute, own a copy of, etc. (see [1] for the proper definition)

Nonfree software = source code not released under such a license

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Free_Software_Definition

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Re:Why Wolfram tech isn’t open source (2019) by chrisseaton on Saturday December 18, 2021 @11:54AM (#29606029)
> Open source = bazaar-style (highly-decentralized development)

> Not open source = cathedral-style (highly-centralized development)

Don't conflate cathedral/bazaar to mean open-source/not-open-source. Wasn't the original example of cathedral the open source Emacs project?

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Re:Why Wolfram tech isn’t open source (2019) by prmoustache on Saturday December 18, 2021 @12:30PM (#29606415)
Those are your own definitions. open-source/free software is about the license, period.

Then some people wants to add some romance around it but that is just their own opinion.

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