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Agree that “free software” & “open source" don't accurately describe modern open source software... @sarahmei has a good list of practices that have emerged as essential....https://twitter.com/sarahmei/status/1174907725853052929 …
(1) "free software" originally protected buyers to be able to extend/modify/fix software, to be able to write drivers and fix bugs in proprietary systems (protecting the rights of software *developers* who were the only users of computers at the start)...
... "free software" also protected the rights of creators, so they could continue to use the code they had created, even independent of what company they worked for (yet at the beginning software was rarely created by unpaid labor)...
(2) "open source" was coined by Christine Peterson (who I think is @lifeext on twitter) "a deliberate effort to make this field of endeavor more understandable to newcomers and to business" https://opensource.com/article/18/2/coining-term-open-source-software … ...
The Foresight Institute sought to improve software security and reliability with "free software" but felt that they "need for a new term due to the confusion factor" ...
"The problem was not that explaining the meaning is impossible—the problem was that the name for an important idea should not be so confusing to newcomers." --https://opensource.com/article/18/2/coining-term-open-source-software …
... the list of practices that @sarahmei identified describes a set of practices that is not a clarification, but rather a way of making that is practiced in some, but not all, open source projects....
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