"Open source" has a precise definition [1], and your comment does not use the term correctly.
[1] https://opensource.org/osd
In particular, if the software or "work" was never made freely available by its lawful owner, it is not open source.
[1] https://opensource.org/osd
In particular, if the software or "work" was never made freely available by its lawful owner, it is not open source.
> There is a viable alternative to the problems raised by Bill Gates in his irate letter to computer hobbyists concerning "ripping off" software. When software is free, or so inexpensive that it's easier to pay for it than to duplicate it, then it won't be "stolen".
—Jim Warren, July 1976