Semantics and Euphemisms
George Carlin laments the softening of our language through excessive euphemisms in his final tome and notes as an example that many things which previously were “free” are now “complimentary” - allowing the requester to retain a bit of dignity, instead of sounding like a “mooch“. With all the talk about free open source, commercial open source, enterprise or business class open source, some basics could be lost in the semantics. However you name it, the core term open source software implies a way of building and licensing software. Sometimes the software rises from a team of unpaid developers, and other times it comes from corporations paying for the development.
