Comment by JimDabell
19 hours ago
> people will continue to use it how they see fit.
And whenever they do so, this pointless argument will happen. Again, and again, and again. Because that’s not what the word means and your desired redefinition has been consistently and continuously rejected over and over again for decades.
What do you gain from misusing this term? The only thing it does is make you look dishonest and start arguments.
Prescriptivists about language always lose in the end. That is the only point I am making. Words mean what people use them for, not what you want them to mean.
I am not misusing the term, but people are, according to your standards. And it is easy for them to do so, because "open source" was poorly named to begin with.