> It wasn't defined at some party or demo-conf. Actually, that's exactly where it was defined. > I brainstormed this with some Silicon Valley fans of Linux (

> It wasn't defined at some party or demo-conf. Actually, that's exactly where it was defined. > I brainstormed this with some Silicon Valley fans of Linux (including Larry Augustin of the Linux International board of directors) the day after my meeting with Netscape (Feb 5th). We kicked around and discarded several alternatives, and we came up with a replacement label we all liked: "open source". [0] Also note, that the OSI didn't exist when they came up with this new label. [0] http://www.catb.org/~esr/open-source.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/open-source.html