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> But sure, you are part of a movement to change the definition of open source to suit certain business interests in opposition to the original principles of freedom that motivated the concept of open source.

I am not a part of anything here, unless I suppose you want to place me in a very loose group of linguistic descriptivists. I am concerned here with how the phrase "open source" is actually used across the breadth of English speakers, not with how it is defined solely by groups and persons with specific political goals.




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