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Looks like the growth curve starts before then: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=software+ecosystem&year_start=1990&year_end=2014&corpus=15&smoothi

• jordigh 12y ago
  Interesting, although the smoothing can be a bit misleading. As I expected, "open source" does not exist before 1998, when Eric Raymond, Bruce Perens, et al coined the term: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=open+source&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1990&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=0&share=&direct_url=t4%3B%2Copen%20source%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3BOpen%20Source%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bopen%20source%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BOpen%20source%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=open+source&ca... However, with data smoothing, it makes it appear is if the term existed before 1998: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=open+source&case_insensitive=on&year_start=1990&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t4%3B%2Copen%20source%3B%2Cc0%3B%2Cs0%3B%3BOpen%20Source%3B%2Cc0%3B%3Bopen%20source%3B%2Cc0%3B%3BOpen%20source%3B%2Cc0 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=open+source&ca...