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CH03::intro: clarify what open source means

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Having an open community is not required.
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((("open source licenses")))((("Nakamoto, Satoshi")))Bitcoin is an _open
source_ project and the source code is available under an open (MIT)
license, free to download and use for any purpose. Open source means
more than simply free to use. It also means that bitcoin is developed by
license, free to download and use for any purpose. More than just being
open source, Bitcoin is developed by
an open community of volunteers. At first, that community consisted of
only Satoshi Nakamoto. By 2016, bitcoin's source code had more than 400
contributors with about a dozen developers working on the code almost