Are you open source enough?

Is your project open source enough? Are you? Are you doing enough for your communities? Accusations like these are getting thrown around more and more, often in the simple form, "X isn't really open." It's a question we've even asked ourselves from time to time when we post stories on opensource.com—is this a real example of openness? But what is "open enough?" And does it really matter?

There comes a point in any community's growth where the collective consciousness starts to feel threatened by newcomers. You know it's happened on a mailing list or web forum when you see posts that start, "I miss when this group used to be..." And if you search Google for the phrase "not really open source," you get 1,800,000 results, suggesting that the broader open source community has officially reached that time.

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