On Tuesday, 18 February 2020 at 13:39:22 -0500, Steve Nickolas wrote:
>
> I always understood "open source" to mean this: you have access to the
> code, you can share it, you can modify it, and any combination of the
> above (including commercial exploitation; basically a restatement of
> Stallman's freedoms in simpler words).

I don't see those words as simpler.  Ask any (wo)man in the street
what free software is, and they'll come up with a reasonable
approximation.  As them what open source is and far fewer will know.
At the very best it's only intelligible in a limited environment.

And of course here in Australia, Open Sauce is a completely different
homonym.  rms won't touch it either:
https://lemis.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/grog/Photos/20100916/small/rms-meets-open-sauce-detail.jpeg

Greg
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