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Re:Open and portable Postgres-as-a-service. Also available o... by glutamate on Thursday December 14, 2023 @04:34PM (#38647569)
Open source does not mean "I can read the source code". Open source means release under an open source license and this is not the case here.
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Re:Open and portable Postgres-as-a-service. Also available o... by OJFord on Thursday December 14, 2023 @04:57PM (#38647881)
But as you said yourself the claim isn't 'open source', it's 'open', so...what do you want really?

I understand this complaint (I get both sides really) when it's a non OSI licence being called 'open source', but you can't just start extending that to the single words 'open' and 'source' too. 'I don't know what "source available" means, because it certainly doesn't mean available under open source licence', etc.

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