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>otherwise you have a lot of situations where it's not technically OSI "Open Source" but the source is literally open.

Just because the source is available to you doesn't mean it's open source though. There are many companies that have the source code to Windows, but I would never describe Windows as being open source. That where the pedanticism comes in.




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