Comment by necovek

The point is that "open source" by now has an established and widespread definition, and a "source" hints that it is something a thing is built from that is open.

Is this really a debate we still need to be having today? Sounds like grumpiness with Open Source Initiative defining this ~25 years ago when this term was rarely used as such.

If we do not accept a well defined term and want to keep it a personal preference, we can say that about any word in a natural language.