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Good&Evil is a classic altrock album by Tally Hall, and now, for something completely different, JSON
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I'm trying to figure out what the hidden message in bold means
It's a reader assistance, some paid for tool that highlights parts of a word, can't recall what it's called...
I use a Firefox thing which has additional features and is free
Bionic Reader
The Cooler Bionic Reader
It's also not necessarily paid for, Jiffy Reader is a free browser addon
This reminded me that I wanted to look into open source alternatives to Bionic Reader...
All extensions are technically open source because they “compile” to JavaScript. Most, including the one I use, don’t bother obfuscating
Open source is a license. What you're referring to is "source-available." You can't legally fork, redistribute, or contribute to it.
I think you got that one wrong.
Open source is not a license. Open source literally just means that the source is openly available. It does not include the right for you to reuse or change any of the source.
That's why most of the time, people are talking about "Free Open Source Software" (FOSS) when they think of openly licensed source code.
That's why you can publish your project on e.g. Github (= open source) but if you don't add a license statement, your work is still protected by an "all rights reserved copyright". (= not free)
Anyhow, I would not necessarily deem a project OSS, just because the used language is readable by default. To me, OSS needs at least the developers intention to make it openly available.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software
Well put me in a dress and call me Sheryl. Never knew that the "accepted definitions" were really that close. Thanks!
I knew that some definitions of OSS were really basic (as in "as long as there is source at some point") but I didn't know that the OSI definition was so close to the idea of "free software".
I found the read about the history and similarities & differences quite interesting: https://web.archive.org/web/20180915200609/http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html
That's a colorful expression if I've ever seen one
That’s what everyone says