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Both of those say "open source code". It's not a phrase like "open source" alone. The emphasis is on "source code" not on "open source". While it sounds pretty
by jordigh 9y ago
Both of those say "open source code". It's not a phrase like "open source" alone. The emphasis is on "source code" not on "open source".
While it sounds pretty brain-dead to put "open" in front of anything, to the point that it seems like the most natural thing for it, most people did not use this term and there was very little widespread understanding of what "open source" meant. If it wasn't for OSI, we'd still be saying a bunch of disjointed things instead of being universally aware of something called "open source".
Every time I have this discussion, someone comes along and thinks, "wait a minute, there's no way that OSI coined that term", but yes, they did. This is probably a Mandela effect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandela_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandela_effect
- kevin_thibedeau 9y agoYou missed the hyphen in Caldera's "open-source", clearly linking them into a single term.
- jordigh 9y agoWell then. I guess you found the one instance of it happening. It was very rare and essentially unheard of.