1) Most people doing open source don't share the author's definition so this discussion winds-up not being about their
2) Tremendous effort and money goes into making the Linux Kernel secure. The fact that you fail to draw a good line between paid open source and "real" open open is indication that this idiosyncratic definition is fallacious and disingenuous.
3) Which brings me back to what I think the real, reasonable line is. The line is between cheap software, software that involves the minimal effort to squeeze out a feature and a full, carefully secured software process. Open source is virtually irrelevant. If some people didn't volunteer to produce free apps that got duplicated everywhere, you'd have a low-paid smuck doing somewhere, probably producing worse quality. Oppositely, highly secure software should be open source or source-available - the eyes the better. Linux, notably, benefits from many, many people testing it and that benefits the very heavy users of Linux who do employ people developing it.
good quality software where people pay for the quality.
2) Tremendous effort and money goes into making the Linux Kernel secure. The fact that you fail to draw a good line between paid open source and "real" open open is indication that this idiosyncratic definition is fallacious and disingenuous.
3) Which brings me back to what I think the real, reasonable line is. The line is between cheap software, software that involves the minimal effort to squeeze out a feature and a full, carefully secured software process. Open source is virtually irrelevant. If some people didn't volunteer to produce free apps that got duplicated everywhere, you'd have a low-paid smuck doing somewhere, probably producing worse quality. Oppositely, highly secure software should be open source or source-available - the eyes the better. Linux, notably, benefits from many, many people testing it and that benefits the very heavy users of Linux who do employ people developing it.
good quality software where people pay for the quality.