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http://hyperlogos.org/article/Who-Invented-Term-Open-Source http://hyperlogos.org/article/Who-Invented-Term-Open-Source
by syockit 6y ago
http://hyperlogos.org/article/Who-Invented-Term-Open-Source http://hyperlogos.org/article/Who-Invented-Term-Open-Source
- vertex-four 6y agoO... k? But what does open source mean today? What has it meant for approximately the last twenty years? Did Epic claim their software is open source? Did Microsoft claim their source-available software was open source? I wonder why not, it would've been a good marketing term, what with all the developers who want open source. The answer is that pretty much everyone agreed that open source means something roughly equivalent to the OSI definition, and even big companies agreed with that... until a year ago or so when somebody decided that they wanted all the benefits of claiming to contribute to open source without actually doing so, and a bunch of people who never actually cared about the FOSS ecosystem aided them in doing so.