Proprietary Open Source

"Open Source" is a meaningless marketing phrase, but it did have a definition based on the Debian Free Software Guidelines.


Today it is used as a bait-and-switch way to promote non-free software, so here is a list of examples.

Adobe Acrobat (non-free software)

used by: Linux Foundation

promoted by:

macOS (non-free software)

used by: Linux Foundation Executive Director, Linux Foundation Web developer(s)

promoted by:

Microsoft Github (non-free software)

used by: Google, IBM, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, GNU Project, FreeBSD, Canonical, Python Foundation, Mozilla, NPM

promoted by: Google

Windows (non-free software)

used by:

promoted by: Canonical, ZDNet

Zoom (non-free software)

used by: Linux Foundation

promoted by: