"Trust" as in: trust it enough to run it on your machine.

(And assuming that you can't understand code yourself)

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[–] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

'Open source' is a deliberately ambiguous phrase, engineered to derail libre software.

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    It's not, it's a term that means very specific things. Most people don't even know that, but both free software and open source are not some catch all phrases. And in fact they don't even mean the same thing.

    You can for example have an open source software that's not free software. The reverse is harder, but IIRC I've seen some license that would qualify (it's been years, maybe I'm misremembering cause I can't find it anymore).

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