Whether a project is developed by a community or by a single entity holding all keys is completely orthogonal to being Open Source/Free Software. There's nothing wrong in putting one kind of projects above the other, but you may want to revise "your opinion" if you want to stay communicative, because terms and definitions are only useful when people agree on what they mean.
I think most projects are genuinely like this though, even ones that accept outside contributions more earnestly. I understand why you'd associate open to contributions with open source but I think its a mistake to treat the relationship as required rather than common.
The sibling comments contain some sharper critique of Microsoft if you haven't read them yet.
Re:Redis is open source again
by MaxBarraclough on Thursday May 01, 2025 @04:29PM
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The terminology for this is the cathedral model and the bazaar model. Under the former model, code is released from 'on high'. Under the latter, it's developed in the open and with cooperation with the community. Both count as Free and Open Source software though, provided of course that a FOSS licence is used.
Re:Redis is open source again
by throwaway2037 on Thursday May 01, 2025 @09:33PM
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> best you can do it raise hell on the forums about a particular issue you want to see fixed
Also, do you have any open source projects that you wrote, maintain, and accept contributions?
While it may technically be open source due to it's license and you can literally go look at the source - Microsoft is operating these codebases as-if they are proprietary. Every decision is made out of public - and I would not be surprised to learn they have their own internal tracker for the "real" backlog items. You frequently see command/comments by Microsoft employees which clearly are triggering workflows in their real backlog tracker, and near-zero discussion happens in Github by Microsoft employees, and when it does - it's clearly through a PR filter.
Like I said, beggars can't be choosers and it's better to have this than nothing - but I don't really think Microsoft has grasped the true concept of FOSS as-of yet.
> Is SQLite not open-source?
Not really in my opinion either. There's no way to contribute at all... best you can do it raise hell on the forums about a particular issue you want to see fixed. So while it's Open Source in the strict sense, it's not Open Source in the general sense.