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1998, when they were founded to start promoting the term "Open Source" over "Free Software" to make GPL/BSD etc license software more business friendly. I took
by FigBug 12y ago
1998, when they were founded to start promoting the term "Open Source" over "Free Software" to make GPL/BSD etc license software more business friendly.
I took a quick look through https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%22open+source%22&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2C%22%20open%20source%20%22%3B%2Cc0#t1%3B%2C%22%20open%20source%20%22%3B%2Cc1 https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%22open+source... and I couldn't see the term being used in a software context before 1998.
- jordigh 12y agoHuh, something's wrong with that link. Should be: 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...