Banon: License changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana

Posted Jan 20, 2021 21:52 UTC (Wed) by IanKelling (subscriber, #89418)
Parent article: Banon: License changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana

> we will continue to use the word “Open” and “Free and Open.” These are simple ways to describe the fact that the product is free to use, the source code is available

It's like https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/openwashing, but redefining the terms and pretending that's their normal definition is more like gaslighting or just corporate propoganda. It's despicable. In case you want a reference for the history of the meaning of free and open https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software defined as free software and open source, never free cost or source available, since 2005. Of course, it's worth mentioning https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.en.html which appeared in 2013. And https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.en.html#FOSS.