# Tobie Langel on what people mean when they say "Open Source"

**URL:** <https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/tobie-langel-on-what-people-mean-when-they-say-open-source/719>\
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**Created:** [May 5, 2021, 4:11pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/tobie-langel-on-what-people-mean-when-they-say-open-source/719 "2021-05-05T16:11:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![RichardLitt](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sustainoss.org/richardlitt/32/8_2.png) [@RichardLitt](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/u/RichardLitt)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 4:11pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/tobie-langel-on-what-people-mean-when-they-say-open-source/719/1 "2021-05-05T16:11:29Z")

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I thought this one was excellent. I reached out to Tobie to come on to talk about his graph, below. Interested in others’ thoughts on this!

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> **[Tobie Langel on what people mean when they say "Open Source"](https://podcast.sustainoss.org/76)**
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> Tobie Langel joins us to explore different types of open source: community-driven OSS, fauxpen source, the broader ecosystem, and nominal open source.

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**Author:** ![scottjenson](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sustainoss.org/scottjenson/32/547_2.png) [@scottjenson](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/u/scottjenson)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2021, 9:17pm UTC](https://discourse.sustainoss.org/t/tobie-langel-on-what-people-mean-when-they-say-open-source/719/2 "2021-05-05T21:17:49Z")

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Just listened to it, excellent! Very thought provoking. I have a question but given Tobie’s comment in the podcast, I’ll ask it on Twitter