Re: Should we talk about "open source" hardware?

[Richard Stallman]

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  > This isn't exactly correct.
  > Visual Studio Code, as I tried to clarify, doesn't claim to be open source.

  > As for VS Codium isn't exactly a fork. They consider themselves not to be 
one:
  > > "This is not a fork": https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium

Those fragments of info might make sense to me if I had a basic
general understanding of this subject.  But I don't.

Would someone like to give me a self-contained basic explanation of
this subject, so I can understand what to do here?

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