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Are you seriously trying to suggest that source code being publicly accessible is worse than nobody being able to access it? What a ridiculous statement.

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You are intentionally misrepresenting OP.

> When will VC companies stop *conflating source available with open source*?

*Misrepresenting* "open source" is the problem. "source available" is the correct phrase

It was worse in the case of early BIOS, which IBM made public in an instruction manual while keeping all relevant rights on distribution. I wonder why they did not publish it with a GPL or AGPL license, where they would keep commercial use to themselves.

IBM PC was released in 1981, GPL 2.0 (which was the first version in wide use) in 1991.

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