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TillE on June 15, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: THN Magazine Stole Our Code and Design

There's open source and there's Open Source. It's always been a fuzzy term, hence the move towards Free Software.

In the strictest, most literal sense, yes, the source is publicly available and readable by default.

Danieru on June 15, 2012 [–]

No, it is not a fuzzy term.

Open source means it is licensed under an open source license. Even Microsoft is not trying to steal the term, opting for 'shared source' instead.

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