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> There's "open source" in the original sense That original sense never existed. Virtually nobody said "open source" before OSI's 1998 campaign for "Open Sourc
by jordigh 3y ago
> There's "open source" in the original sense
That original sense never existed. Virtually nobody said "open source" before OSI's 1998 campaign for "Open Source", as bankrolled by Tim O'Reilly.
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I know it's been a long time, and we've forgotten, but there is virtually no record of anyone saying "open source" before 1998, except in rare and obscure contexts and often unrelated to the modern meaning.
- teddyh 3y agoThere’s this one from September 10th, 1996, which I find intriguing: https://web.archive.org/web/20180402143912/http://www.xent.com/FoRK-archive/fall96/0269.html https://web.archive.org/web/20180402143912/http://www.xent.c...