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Open $ource
Not to be confused with Free Software
Open Source (also open $ource) is a neoliberal and capitalist perversion of the Free Software Movement that abandons the main principles of Free Software: freedom and ethics, in exchange of maximum profit and exploit of programmers and users.
Megacorporations love "open source" since it gives them positive PR: "see our source code is OPEN!" but due to the lack of ethics, this software is almost the same as proprietary software in terms of abuse to their users.
The Open Source movement promotes permissive licenses (and not the GPL) so they can profit from code written by unpaid programmers, for example see the sad case with the BSDs operating systems, Apple and Sony has been making billions of dollars from the gratis effort of FreeBSD developers, while giving NOTHING in exchange, NOT EVEN source code, NOT EVEN a USD penny in donations.
Average Open $ource program: bloated, has DRM, autoupdates, constant influx of "new" features and business-oriented features, uses proprietary chat/forum software (Discord, Slack, etc.), promotes proprietary software as something that is "not that bad", walled gardens, codes of censorship, etc.