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I think they literally coined and defined the term over 25 years ago.
by tingletech 10mo ago
I think they literally coined and defined the term over 25 years ago.
- CamperBob2 10mo agoThat's not how it works. They're entitled to their own opinion, but not to their own dictionary.
- hollerith 10mo agoSo if you were to write that you are not in the habit of stealing from children, you might have your own idiosyncratic definition of "steal" or "child"?
- CamperBob2 10mo agoWell, I certainly can't argue with that, um... logic. Meanwhile, if anyone is entitled to the distinction of having "coined" the "fundamentally novel" phrase, it's a guy named Robert Steele who publicized the term "open source intelligence" in 1990 and organized the First International Symposium on Open Source Solutions in 1992.
- hollerith 10mo agoThe phrase was first applied to software by the drafters of the Open Source Definition.
- CamperBob2 10mo agoBe that as it may, it's a generic phrase, as evinced by its prior usage in other fields like intelligence and journalism. Lacking a trademark, OSI has zero authority to word-police everyone else. No amount of plugging their ears and chanting lalalala will change the fact that OSI does not own exclusive rights to the phrase "open source." Not with respect to software, not with respect to anything else. The author of the project in this article is perfectly within their rights to use the term, and the rest of us know very well what they mean by it.
- hollerith 10mo ago"Steal" and "child" likewise lack any trademark protection. So, suppose I accuse you of stealing from children, then when you protest, I reply that the meaning I give those 2 words might not be the meaning most people have, but that is fine because no one owns the exclusive rights to those 2 words.
- PaulDavisThe1st 10mo agoWhen you combine two words into a fundamentally novel phrase, you are not expressing an opinion, you are contributing to the global (or in this case, anglophone) dictionary.