Any downvoters want to explain here? I don't understand what's wrong with the question. Please explain more fully why "open source" should be synonymous with "free software", or, if you downvoted for another reason, please tell me where I went wrong. Thanks.
I didn't downvote (I haven't even been to the page since before you posted that comment until just now), but maybe I can help you understand why I disagree with what you said:
tl;dr: The term "open source" was coined by the people who founded the OSI, and they provided a definition for it. The term many people in the open source community use for software whose source is available (but not open source) is "source-available software".
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Any downvoters want to explain here? I don't understand what's wrong with the question. Please explain more fully why "open source" should be synonymous with "free software", or, if you downvoted for another reason, please tell me where I went wrong. Thanks.
I didn't downvote (I haven't even been to the page since before you posted that comment until just now), but maybe I can help you understand why I disagree with what you said:
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/when-open-source...
tl;dr: The term "open source" was coined by the people who founded the OSI, and they provided a definition for it. The term many people in the open source community use for software whose source is available (but not open source) is "source-available software".