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You can't discriminate against any fields of endeavor[0] if you wish for your software to be under any OSI approved open source license.

[0] https://opensource.org/osd-annotated

he/she actually can, if he/she chooses to... some licenses discriminate against people that don't have money for buying them, so there should be nothing unfair about this...

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Actually, he did.

He said he would be 'open sourcing' it. To me this means, making the source available. I suspect OP doesn't care about strict definitions of what does and doesn't constitute open source..

To me this means, making the source available.

"Shared source" is a notion which Microsoft termed to refer to make the source code available without the software being open source.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_source
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