Please don't post hearsay. If you want to post something incriminating, take a second to verify it first. This is how bad rumors propagate, and as a society today it's a problem we're facing like never before. Do your part!
In this case you're completely wrong.
See discussion here. Open Source is a valid term for this. Don't police perfectly innocent and common use of language please.
Oh my god, stop being a proscriptivist about this. Open source is not the same as free software. You're thinking of FLOSS.
no it isn't. The old versions are still GPL. permission from contributors was attained.
Note that
So what's the controversy, really?
The conversation was not originally about OSD; I had just mentioned it.
You do too by using the term FOSS instead of FLOSS
Touchée. But FLOSS the term only emphasises even more: there's open source software, and then there's free/libre open source software -- note the distinction.
This I can believe tbh. It's a very useful tool in the hands of an expert. Otherwise it's like giving a chimp a gun.
Maybe this is why I am surprised at people's hatred of ChatGPT. It's borne of misuse of a tool for experts, like newcomers struggling with a C++ compiler error.
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