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The phrase "open source" does predate the OSD.

• jordigh 11y ago
  No, everyone seems to believe that, but it does not. The phrase did not exist before 1998, when OSI published the OSD and Tim O'Reilly viciously promoted it: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=open+source&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1990&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=0&share=&direct_url=t4%3B%2Copen%20source%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3BOpen%20Source%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bopen%20source%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BOpen%20source%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=open+source&ca... http://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/5-things-we-have-forgotten-about-open-source/ http://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/5-things-we-have-forgot... http://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-meme-hustler http://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-meme-hustler
  • nailer 11y ago
    That's an excellent set of references. I've posted the second one to New: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11230832 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11230832
  • maaku 11y ago
    The phrase "open source" predates its use in software.
    • Flimm 11y ago
      That graph from Google trends seems to contradict that point.