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They didn’t coin the term: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/who-really-coined-the-term-open-source?s=r https://lunduke.substack.com/p/who-really-coined-the-term-

They didn’t coin the term: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/who-really-coined-the-term-open-source?s=r https://lunduke.substack.com/p/who-really-coined-the-term-op...

busterarm 5y ago
From the perspective of popularizing and bringing it into mainstream usage, they surely did. Digging further is for extreme nitpickers. Gutenberg didn't "invent" the printing press either. Movable type dates back to 11th century China if you really want accurate attribution. Except for the purposes of the history of the modern world, Gutenberg's invention is most relevant/accurate. My internet usage started on university systems back in the 80s, along with BBS and usenet and I had never heard the term Open Source even once until 1998.
- CogitoCogito 5y ago
  So they popularized (or maybe co-opted?) the term then. They didn't coin it. How is this nitpicking? Saying they coined the term is clearly false.
  - busterarm 5y ago
    Because as far as they know they did. It came up in meetings they had saying "what should we call this?" per your own link! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery
    - CogitoCogito 5y ago
      I'm not really sure what your point is anymore. If you agree that they were not the first ones to use the term, then we are on the same page. If you agree that open source was used as a term before the OSI came along and decided the define the term in a specific way, then we are in agreement.
      - busterarm 5y ago
        Not really in the context of software though it wasn't. Save for that one caldera announcement. General awareness of the term and its meaning starts with the OSI.
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pie_flavor 5y ago
When I see a bunch of disconnected posts, and not a percentage or some kind of number, I automatically assume those are all the examples the author could find. If you trawled through the entirety of usenet you could probably also find someone who capitalized the word Windows before Microsoft ever got hold of it. I disagree with Richard Stallman and the FSF about a lot of things, but I would never oppose their right to declare what is and isn't 'free software' (within the hacker community, anyway), regardless of how many people put the word 'free' before the word 'software' before he started talking about it.

They didn’t coin the term: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/who-really-coined-the-term-open-source?s=r https://lunduke.substack.com/p/who-really-coined-the-term-op...

busterarm 5y ago

From the perspective of popularizing and bringing it into mainstream usage, they surely did. Digging further is for extreme nitpickers. Gutenberg didn't "invent" the printing press either. Movable type dates back to 11th century China if you really want accurate attribution. Except for the purposes of the history of the modern world, Gutenberg's invention is most relevant/accurate. My internet usage started on university systems back in the 80s, along with BBS and usenet and I had never heard the term Open Source even once until 1998.

CogitoCogito 5y ago
So they popularized (or maybe co-opted?) the term then. They didn't coin it. How is this nitpicking? Saying they coined the term is clearly false.
- busterarm 5y ago
  Because as far as they know they did. It came up in meetings they had saying "what should we call this?" per your own link! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery
  - CogitoCogito 5y ago
    I'm not really sure what your point is anymore. If you agree that they were not the first ones to use the term, then we are on the same page. If you agree that open source was used as a term before the OSI came along and decided the define the term in a specific way, then we are in agreement.
    - busterarm 5y ago
      Not really in the context of software though it wasn't. Save for that one caldera announcement. General awareness of the term and its meaning starts with the OSI.
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pie_flavor 5y ago

When I see a bunch of disconnected posts, and not a percentage or some kind of number, I automatically assume those are all the examples the author could find. If you trawled through the entirety of usenet you could probably also find someone who capitalized the word Windows before Microsoft ever got hold of it. I disagree with Richard Stallman and the FSF about a lot of things, but I would never oppose their right to declare what is and isn't 'free software' (within the hacker community, anyway), regardless of how many people put the word 'free' before the word 'software' before he started talking about it.