alt Hacker NewsSo is OpenSUSE made by the BSD team? OpenOffice? OpenShift? OpenCV? OpenAI?
It is not reasonable to claim this prefix unambiguously refers to the OpenBSD team. I do not understand why so many in this thread are pretending this isn't a confusing choice.
Nobody ever claimed that “Open” is a prefix used unambiguously by only one group of people ever.
In fact, your insistence that “Open” can only be used by projects that are replacing proprietary software is itself very odd.
OpenBSD itself has had its name for thirty years, and is not named for being an “open source” implementation of a proprietary OS.