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This article has previously been nominated to be moved. Please review the prior discussions if you are considering re-nomination.
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RM, Open-source software → Open software, Not moved, 2 March 2022, discussion
RM, Open-source software → Open source software, Results pending, 13 October 2022, discussion
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Oppose Open-source software seems more frequently used in RS. The page linked to by the nominator is just 1 license, and the website is named "Open Source Initiative". I can provide more examples of necessary. 🐶 EpicPupper(he/him | talk)21:18, 2 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Open-source software and open software mean the completely same thing. This is not something like free software versus open source. The thing is, 'Open [something]' is a common practice today, check terms such as ‘Open data’, ‘Open content’, ‘Open API’, and so on. This could perhaps be extended to software (and is already in use). This could be discussed :) --Avoinlähde (talk) 21:47, 4 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Open-source software is much more prevalent term. If you take a look at article references, only one uses the term "open software" and it seems from context that it is actually considered a different thing. – K4rolB (talk) 11:42, 5 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
What you mean? "If you take a look at article references, only one uses the term "open software" and it seems from context that it is actually considered a different thing." --Avoinlähde (talk) 23:31, 6 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Kelty, Christpher M. (2008). "The Cultural Significance of free Software – Two Bits" (PDF). Duke University press – durham and london. p. 99. Prior to 1998, Free Software referred either to the Free Software Foundation (and the watchful, micromanaging eye of Stallman) or to one of thousands of different commercial, avocational, or university-research projects, processes, licenses, and ideologies that had a variety of names: sourceware, freeware, shareware, open software, public domain software, and so on. The term Open Source, by contrast, sought to encompass them all in one movement.
This seems to suggest that the open software is a subset of open-source software. Changing the name will be confusing. – K4rolB (talk) 19:51, 7 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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हमने यूट्यूब पर अपनी वीडियो डाली नेट खत्म होने की वजह से वीडियो प्रोसेस में फंस चुकी
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Oppose: The numbers are always going to be skewed towards "open source" because of lazy writers: Hitting the space bar is more convenient than reaching for the hyphen. I prefer "open-source" because in larger expressions like "free and open-source software" it makes clear that the two words "open" and "source" belong together and form a single adjective. Microsoft's style guide and Compute Hope's advice happen to align perfectly with my view. —Dexxor (talk) 07:27, 14 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
When choosing which practice to use (hyphen or not?) I believe the more common term should be used. The same test should be applied to the examples you cite for consistency ("open-source hardware", "open-source bounty", etc.). Some of them ("open-source hardware" for example) may need to be moved, but others will likely stay the same. Simply put, by picking the most common usage, you can stick with both articles named, for example, "open source software" and "open-source ventilator". Llightex (talk) 01:42, 21 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
For your point about "free and open-source software"; we may prefer a particular spelling to avoid ambiguity (just like some prefer to use the Oxford comma), but I don't think that's relevant if we have an overriding common usage. In this case, if you look at the n-grams, "free and open source software" is used far more -- "free and open-source software" does not even make the n-gram lists because it's so infrequently used. The GNU.org open source philosophy essays (https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.en.html) also use the unhyphenated term. Llightex (talk) 01:46, 21 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. The MOS applies to article titles, and MOS:HYPHEN makes clear that compound modifiers such as this one generally need a hyphen. Personally I'm skeptical of the notion that COMMONNAME should take precedence on style issues (see here for some differing perspectives on that question), but even accepting that it should, the purpose of COMMONNAME is to produce titles that meet the criteria, and in this case the hyphenated version is a bit more recognizable and much more consistent (see Dexxor's comments above) with only a slight loss (at worst) in the naturalness department. Extraordinary Writ (talk) 22:06, 20 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I agree. It's like when we decide whether to use a hyphen or a dash in a title. Or like how we don't generally capitalize short prepositions in titles even if a majority of sources do because of our general article title formatting rules, we also generally hyphenate compound adjectives in titles such as this regardless of what a majority of sources do. This is a formatting/English grammar issue, not a WP:COMMONNAME issue. Rreagan007 (talk) 05:50, 22 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per MOS:HYPHEN. There is nothing magically special about this case, and WP doesn't care whether other publishers under their own style guides know how to hyphenate properly or not. — SMcCandlish☏¢ 😼 06:19, 23 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. It is a misery though. My understanding of the hyphen rules is: "open-source software" is software with the attribute of being open-source. "Open source software" would be something different, software about the phenomenon dubbed "open source". This distinction becomes more apparent when you turn to other uses, e.g. "open-source strategies" vs "open source strategies". The first are strategies that are available as open source, the second are strategies about open source, the phenomenon. Open-source tooling is tools that are open source, open source tooling are tools for open source (like GitHub, which is not provided as open-source software). Dirk Riehle (talk) 12:50, 26 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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