Clearly these products are being named by topologists, who have no objection to things being simultaneously open and closed.

It's following the open closed principle.

It could be open in the literally sense of you aren't locked in, you have free access to any model you want.

Just because a name has open in it doesn't mean it has to be open source.

It’s an AI era buzzword. It’s not a new process, e.g. when blockchain was trendy, “crypto-“ and “bit-“ became similarly popular and meaningless.

"Open" is a load bearing reference we all get :p

blame openai they started it

Would "OpenSourceRouter" be a trademark violation?

I've built one in Rust and want to market it.