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I'm going to start encrypting the bottom 2/3rds of all my comments and charging a subscription fee for the unlocks. I can be my own Substack, dammit.
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Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI
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Re: Mistral releases Devstral2 and Mistral Vibe CLI
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"Open-source" isn't a term that emerged organically from conversations between people. It is a term that was very deliberately coined for a specific purpose, defined into existence by an authority. It's a term of art, and its exact definition is available here: https://opensource.org/osd The term "open-source" exists for the purposes of a particular movement. If you are "for" the misuse and abuse of the term, you not…
yeahhhhhhh, that's not how this works. Unless this authority has some ownership over the term and can prevent its misuse (e.g. with lawsuits or similar), it is not actually the authority of the term, and people will continue to use it how they see fit. Indeed, I am not part of a movement (nor would I want to be) which focuses more on what words are used rather than what actions are taken.
There's no authority that will punish you for misusing legal terms of art, or engineering terms of art— in everyday speech like this discussion— either. The vibe this gives is frankly "I just learned trademark exists and I think I'm very smart now".
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> people will continue to use it how they see fit. People can also say 2+2=5, and they're wrong. And people will continue to call them out on it. And we will keep doing so, because stopping lets people move the Overton window and try to get away with even more.
2+2 is a mathematical concept. Definitions do not need to be agreed upon beyond fundamental axioms. The same is not true for "open source", which is a purely linguistic construct.
What the symbol "2" refers to is a matter of convention, just like with any ordinary word.