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Because they basically invented the term "open source." Prior to them the biggest thing in popularizing what we now call "open source" was RMS and the Free Soft
by thehardsphere 10y ago
Because they basically invented the term "open source." Prior to them the biggest thing in popularizing what we now call "open source" was RMS and the Free Software Foundation, which lots of people were turned off by.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Initiative https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Initiative
- tptacek 10y agoNo, the biggest thing that popularized what we now call "open source" was (obviously) Linux --- which was the wave OSI caught.
- thehardsphere 10y agoI meant the literal words "open source" as the term to refer to the practices that created software like Linux.
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