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"Source" can mean any source of information. The term "open source intelligence", referring to public records, goes back to the 60s.
by jfengel 10mo ago
"Source" can mean any source of information. The term "open source intelligence", referring to public records, goes back to the 60s.
- oblio 10mo agoIn IT contexts it's used for source code in 99% of situations. Most people have nothing to do with the military or espionage.
- yieldcrv 10mo agoit's about to be 98% and I'm fine with that people need to re-evaluate their relationship with open source instead of as a synonym for FOSS, because it clearly doesn't mean that regardless of the colloquialism and FOSS has an adjective and noun for a reason, its older than the colloquialism this is just a reversion to the mean