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Re:Professional video editing, right in the browser with Web... by flohofwoe on Sunday March 22, 2026 @04:51AM (#47475640)
For nitpicking like that let me do some counter-nitpicking: please write 'Open Source (OSI)', 'Open Source (TM)' or at least capitalize it as 'Open Source' so that people know where you're coming from. The commonly used 'open source' just means 'the source is in the open'. Let's not allow organizations to hijack commonly used words.
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Re:Professional video editing, right in the browser with Web... by circuit10 on Sunday March 22, 2026 @08:04AM (#47476648)
It’s not nitpicking, the term “open source” is not usually used for this kind of thing, it would be called “shared source”

I did a poll on this on a Discord server a while ago

What does open source mean

You can view the source code: 0 votes

View + use + redistribute for any purpose: 14 votes

So no, your version of it is not the common usage

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Re:Professional video editing, right in the browser with Web... by flohofwoe on Sunday March 22, 2026 @09:31AM (#47477375)
Was that the OSI discord server? ;) 14 votes in a specific bubble isn't all that representative either.
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Re:Professional video editing, right in the browser with Web... by circuit10 on Sunday March 22, 2026 @03:12PM (#47480971)
It's calculator programming related so I'd say not biased in any particular way other than having a lot of hobbyist techy people
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Re:Professional video editing, right in the browser with Web... by RobotToaster on Monday March 23, 2026 @06:07AM (#47487375)
Open source has a commonly held definition, it's not nitpicking. I will not let corporations cynically hijack the definition to mean "you can look at the source" the way you suggest.
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