Open source is a movement that is forked from the free software movement. Unlike the free software movement, open source advocates do not place extreme emphasis on the ethical benefits of free software (like no drm, no spying, able to freely share, modifty, and redistribute software, etc) and place more emphasis on how efficient it is to develop open source software since it is more collaborative and it is easy to get free (as in beer) development from programming nerds. The term open source came to with how capitalists such as Eric Raymond, Larry Augustin, Christine Peterson, and Linus Torvalds were critical of the political and moral philosphy of free software. They met up somewhere in Palo Alto, California where Peterson came up with the word open source. The term open source was seen as more buisnness friendly due to the ambiguity of the English word "free". When many people say open source for a program that doesn't infringe upon their ability to share and modify a program and how it doesn't spy on them, what they mean is more the ethical ideas of free software.
Many open source advocates do not mind proprietary software (like how the Linux kernel contains firmware blobs) and stuff like drm. If you go on Linux Mint's website, they say that their OS is free and open source with their definition of free and open source being that it is free of cost and almost all of it's components are open source. There are GNU/Linux distros such as Bazzite whose main focus is not on freedom but mostly focused on gaming on steam and comes preinstalled with it. It is an immutable distro where the file system outside of the home directory cannot be changed and have to rely on bs like flatpak and makes the os more like Android. With people that work on open source projects, they use proprietary platforms such as discord and Github (which is owned by Microsoft and requires javascript). It is common for corporations to say that they love open source such as Microsoft <3 open source.
With the developers of the Heroic Games Launcher which is an open source client for GOG and Epic games, they will prevent people from launching drm free versions of GOG games if it cannot autheticate the license of the game. I don't know what the the point of it is since one of the main reasons why you would want to buy games on GOG is to have guaranteed offline access to games you paid for, but some open source soydevs think otherwise. When launching games bought through gog directly, they do not have license checks. Heroics only good use is downloading gog games and launching games purchased from their outside heroic since gog has no GNU/Linux client or just download the offline installers from gog's website. See this wine article where I explain how to use proton ge with umu launcher without any client or launcher. You can also use normal wine and install dxvk, vkd3d proton, and lav filters to wine prefix aswell.
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