I've been using torrents for decades, along with a bunch of friends, and none of us has ever heard the term either. The OP's assumption that it's common knowledge is simply wrong.
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Exactly this. I'm a developer currently. Before that I had only a vague idea of what open source was, basically that it's visible to everyone. Didn't know about github, or any other application of open source outside of pc software and I was kinda advanced tech user with flashing custom roms, trying out Linux etc. Laymen have no idea what's going on, exceptions aside.
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