Re:How to pay your rent with your open source project (2020)
by _gabe_ on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @05:05PM
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I could care less about the terminology people use, but I feel like all your examples would point to the intuitive meaning that "open source" implies.
An open door implies you can see what's behind the door, as opposed to a closed door. An open book implies you can see what's inside a book, as opposed to a closed book. Likewise, open source implies that you can see inside the source code, as opposed to closed source.
So I think the claim that it has no obvious literal meaning is a bit hyperbolic, but I get where your thinking, since most developers automatically associate "open source" with "free code".
Re:How to pay your rent with your open source project (2020)
by olddustytrail on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @05:42PM
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Except the phrase "open door" doesn't mean that. It's a door you can walk through, not see through.
Perhaps Glass Source would be a more accurate phrase for code you can see but not touch.
It's great that the phrase "open source" has been so intuitively understood but to claim it has an obvious literal meaning is just nonsense.