would someone kindly clarify this paragaph, please (RH business

[Alan Cox]

> say what?  i'm not convinced.  what if i start a company and write
> a completely proprietary piece of software, with license fees and
> per-seat restrictions and everything?  i might decide, for better
> or worse, to open source that product, and yet it would still be
> proprietary and non-free.

The open source definition most people use says that isnt open source. Its
"source available" or some similar term. Lots of proprietary software is
actually sold like this outside the PC space. In some parts of computing
it has been one of the normal ways to sell code for a long time.