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> (1988 is earlier than 1996) Oops, that was a typo on my part, the OSI claims to have invented it in 1998 not 1988, updated my original post here too See th
by gpm 6y ago
> (1988 is earlier than 1996)
Oops, that was a typo on my part, the OSI claims to have invented it in 1998 not 1988, updated my original post here too
See the source: https://opensource.com/article/18/2/coining-term-open-source-software https://opensource.com/article/18/2/coining-term-open-source...
- vertex-four 6y agoAh, thank you. Either way, one company using the term once before that doesn't mean that it is a phrase in common usage. It also doesn't mean that the term hasn't changed to mean something else in the eyes of hundreds of thousands of developers since them, and using it to mean its plain meaning will only ever cause confusion, and potentially result in people doing things you didn't want with the source code. Epic, Microsoft, IBM, and hundreds of other companies, big and small, have been careful to avoid this issue specifically because there is an existing definition and it causes confusion.
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