Re: Make sure to FLOSS to keep your ecosystem healthy.
This issue of "when is open source not F/LOSS?' is as much about defining the word "open" as anything else. In mathematics, the term means different things in different contexts. Geometry, topology and set theory all give it different and incompatible technical meanings. In set theory it is even incompatible with the theory's use of "closed", so that a set may be open and closed at the same tile, known as clopen.
The open-to-inspection-but-not-reuse garbage is just another example. You can't say that people are "missing the point" to use the word in a different way, as that would be autocratically imposing your own meaning on a much-twisted word - and if the English-language lexicon is one thing, it is much-twisted over time and space. This is what the maths example illustrates in its small way. But you can say that the open-to-inspection-but-not-reuse brigade are a bunch of sharks to be steered well clear of. Certain of Microsoft's bad smells being a case in point.
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