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> it's open source, get over it (and this one even convert to open source after a while)

You're literally acknowledging that it's not open source in the brackets.


Source available is not the same thing as open source. Words and terms mean something.


This conversation reminds me a bit of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21191676 some time ago (similar misuse of the term "open source")


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Read the literal open source definition

https://opensource.org/osd


The source is available for you to read.

English is a language in which words can have more than one meaning depending on the context they are used in.

"I am sick" meaning that I am not feeling well.

In the context of someone watching a performance: "This is sick!" as an exclamation that something they saw was impressive.

In the context of someone watching something gut wrenching: "This is sick!" as an exclamation that something they saw was horrible and unpleasant.

In the context of someone stepping in a puddle of vomit while walking around London: "This is sick!?" as a dismayed exclamation of realisation that what they stepped in was a puddle of vomit.

I can go on, and so can anyone who can speak English.

So, please stop this bullshit of "I want this word to mean this one thing that it has not meant at least the past 30 years."

It's extremely useful that we can agree on what words mean despite the fuzziness of English. You are intentionally trying to muddy the water.


I sanction this comment.




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