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vortico on Feb 2, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Consolas is now open source

That's called "source available", not "open source". At least according to the OSI. https://opensource.org/osd

vbezhenar on Feb 3, 2019 [–]

It's not even that. Old Windows sources are available via torrents. That does not attach any kind of open source license.

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