Bart wonders why my definition of Open Source is.
The Open Source Definition pretty much defines what Open Source is to me.
But it's mostly because of that definition that you get a lot of other things for free.
It gives you freedom to learn, to improve, it gives you an ecosystem in which you can solve problems rather than having to tell your customer that your hands are tied and you can't help them
It also gives you a platform on which you can continue to build rather than having to reinvent the wheel over and over again.
A couple of months ago there was a big discussion about Organic vs Non Organic Open Source, and I strongly believe that the better projects out there need to have a big user and contributing community.
And all of that means open source to me.
But when it comes down to defining Open Source, OSI did a pretty good job for us already.
