This misunderstanding continues to crop up on Hacker News. [0]

> Things don't become true just from being written down on the Internet

That's not what they were saying.

People who care about open source software use the OSI's definition. You can't reason about the open source movement if you use a fundamentally nonstandard understanding of the term, such as the one you are proposing. You wouldn't be able to make sense of a blog post like this, for instance. [1][2]

> Open source means that the source code is open for the public to see, and that's it.

The open source movement disagrees. Are we expected to accept your definition just because it's written down on the Internet?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31203209

[1] https://drewdevault.com/2024/07/16/2024-07-16-So-you-want-to...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40993787