alt Hacker NewsAmerican-style words are really hard these days. I thought 'open' meant source code is available, but at some point, starting with OpenAI, it seems like 'open' has come to mean 'we'll open your wallet.
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repelsteeltje • today at 3:18 PM
The ambiguity of the word "Open" has a long history. Going back to at least late 1980s, when X Window "skin" OPEN LOOK (by AT&T - Sun consortium) had license issues and Open Source Foundation started work on OSF Motif.
jrm4 • today at 3:37 PM
Obligatory "Stallman was right" here.
Seriously, though. Without legal teeth and against marketing, "Open" never much stood a chance.
And that isn't even the original meaning either! "open source" in reference to software was itself a term stolen from the intelligence community.
"open" is simply a vague word that you are assigning more meaning to than it actually means.