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Their original board created the term in the 90s as an alternative to GNU's free software.
by monocasa 3y ago
Their original board created the term in the 90s as an alternative to GNU's free software.
- tobyjsullivan 3y agoOh, thanks. OSI has been around much longer than I expected. This post[0] dives into who coined the term (spoiler: it predates OSI by a long, long time), but it’s reasonable that OSI popularized it alongside their specific definition. [0] https://lunduke.substack.com/p/who-really-coined-the-term-open-source https://lunduke.substack.com/p/who-really-coined-the-term-op... IMHO, to the extent that their goal was to find a less confusing term than “free”, I’d say they’ve failed.