Should We Require That Open Source is Developed Openly?

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more than being open source

Roy Tennant wrote an interesting post about the definition of open source, in it he says:

“Open source” should mean exactly that and nothing more—the source code of the software is open, thereby allowing others to see it, understand it, and perhaps modify it. How the software itself is developed should be an additional aspect to the terminology, such as “openly developed open source.”

 

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