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Comment by mkmk3

20 hours ago

Earnestly, what's the concern here? People complain about open source being mostly beneficial to megacorps, if that's the main change (idk I haven't looked too closely) then that's pretty good, no?

They are claiming something is open-source when it isn’t. Regardless of whether you think the deviation from open-source is a good thing or not, you should still be in favour of honesty.

  • *according to your definition of open-source

    • No, according to the commonly accepted definition of open-source.

      Whenever anybody tries to claim that a non-commercial licenses is open-source, it always gets complaints that it is not open-source. This particular word hasn’t been watered down by misuse like so many others.

      There is no commonly-accepted definition of open-source that allows commercial restrictions. You do not get to make up your own meaning for words that differs from how other people use it. Open-source does not have commercial restrictions by definition.

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    • *according to the industry standard definition of Open Source

      This kind of thing is how people try to shift the Overton window. No.

Mainly about the dilution of the term. Though TBH i do not think that open source is beneficial mostly to megacorps either.