alt Hacker News>>> To be more specific, Open Source only promises the four fundamental freedoms (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Free_Software_Definition).
no, that is FSF's free software.
I'm sick of coming here and see "open source" as something with "moral values" - stealing it from the free software with "the magic" of conflating the two concepts.
Open source is just big software companies stealing from innumerable volunteers
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engeljohnb • today at 11:04 AM
> Open source is just big software companies stealing from innumerable volunteers
Whether you think this is true or not, MIT and BSD licenses still guarantee the four freedoms.
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If you look at the Open Source Definition, you see the four freedoms: https://opensource.org/osd
That’s unsurprising because the OSD is based on the Debian social contract, and Debian is a GNU distribution.