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Saying this about any corporation's product is guaranteed not to age well.
So is Android. So is Chromium. So is React, and Flutter. So is Java.
Open source doesn't mean FOSS.
Open source does mean FOSS. It doesn’t mean community-oriented.
No it doesn't. Different licenses dictate what you can and can't do with open source software. Some are more restrictive than others. Open source simply means that the source code is freely available.
It absolutely does. Open source is not simply source-available, it means that it follows the open source definition. https://opensource.org/osd