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If you carefully read the email you linked you'll see the context is different and open source (and definitely not open source software) is not used as a term o
by andrewshadura 5y ago
If you carefully read the email you linked you'll see the context is different and open source (and definitely not open source software) is not used as a term on its own.
- chrisseaton 5y agoYes the term didn't have exactly the same meaning, but that's sort of the point. The term Open Source, as a term related to software code access, predated the OSI and Peterson. They took an existing term which other people were already using, claimed it for their own, and started trying to tell people how to use it. They even tried to trademark it!