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[–] [email protected] 163 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Open source ≠ Source availiable

Example of non open source programs with source code https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_proprietary_source-available_software

[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Open source ≠ free software

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

According to the Open Source Initiative (the folks who control whether things can be officially certified as "open source"), it basically is the same thing as Free Software. In fact, their definition was copied and pasted from the Debian Free Software guidelines.

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