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What does Open Source mean?
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this post was submitted on 04 Apr 2026
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In 1998, the Open Source Definition was created for clarity. A lot of people were confused between Free Software/GPL, and other types of open source software. People would make a lot of assumptions that it meant many things it didn't so a formal definition was written down.
It doesn't seem like it worked to clarify much as people still have wildly differing views on what Open Source means or what they think it should mean.