@Suiseiseki obviously I was pandering to you. obviously a sensible answer might be something like "go read the OSI home page"

> it isn't correct that everyone knows such definition

anyone who isn't disingenuously trying to grind an ideological axe, and who has actually spent any amount of time in the domain, knows in some general sense what "open source" means. it is a commonly understood shared concept. the only people who struggle with it are those with agendas and those who are clueless

the genuinely clueless don't know what "libre" or "FOSS" or any of the other terms mean either. it's all opaque jargon to them. but then that shouldn't really matter given that they will (more or less by definition) lack the skills to modify their own software. but even most clueless people are likely understand concepts like "vendor lockin" well enough. convincing them that it should actually matter to them enough that they should change their behavior, well, good luck with that

> GNU/Jihad against "FOSS"!

what's wrong with FOSS as a term?

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