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A comment on Show HN: Onit – open-source ChatGPT Desktop with local mode, Claude, Gemini. Parent comment

Re:Show HN: Onit – open-source ChatGPT Desktop with local mo... by emacsen on Friday January 24, 2025 @06:50PM (#42818080)
"It's not recognized as Open Source by the Open Source body, and doesn't meet the criteria of Free/Open Source Software, but is Open Source" is a bit like saying "I used GMO and petroleum based pesticides, but my produce is all organic."
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Re:Show HN: Onit – open-source ChatGPT Desktop with local mo... by josephernest on Sunday January 26, 2025 @03:10AM (#42828608)
But here the source is open!

Why should we restrict the meaning of Opel Source, a societal mouvement since decades, to a list of criteria that FSF or OSI decided?

Open source is not a trade mark by FSF or OSI.

OP did not say it is free/libre software, but just open source, which it is.

We don't need "source available", just open source is correct.

PS: can you define the open source body in your previous comment?

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Re:Show HN: Onit – open-source ChatGPT Desktop with local mo... by emacsen on Sunday January 26, 2025 @01:19PM (#42832364)
Why should words like "organic" in relation to food mean without pesticides? I mean all carbon and water based life forms are organic, right?

I can define Open Source easily, using the OSI definition.

There is not a trademark for Open Source because they failed to secure the trademark, but we have decades of use for the term meaning something specific.

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