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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".

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