On top of that, accepting this bolsters companies to use this kind of a definition specifically to take advantage of the mental model that many people have connecting "open source" with OSI.

[–] tux0r -5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If your goal is to ever talk to people about open source software, that’s going to create a lot of unnecessary confusion.

I guess that my definition of open source is not that uncommon, given that the terms "free software" and "libre software" exist and are rather well-established by this point.

[–] thejevans@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 months ago

The fact that there is overlap has no bearing on whether your definition is common.

[–] chebra@mstdn.io 1 points 2 months ago

@tux0r You are right that this mistaken definition is quite common. Smart person would try to correct the mistake, not defend it.