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> Open-source doesn't mean free

Counterpoint: yes it does. Hardly anyone pays for external open-source products. Managed solutions, yes, but we've seen multiple times that trying to close an open system so you can charge for it is very unpopular. For example, my workplace has a company-wide edict against using or even downloading the Oracle JDK.



Open source literally means they show you the source code. It doesn’t have to mean anything beyond that.


"open source" is by now understood to mean https://opensource.org/osd


it doesn't, that's called source-available


.. and let you redistribute it. Which implies that everyone else can have a copy. And therefore usually the binaries.




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