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0 pointsbusterarm4y ago0 comments

From the perspective of popularizing and bringing it into mainstream usage, they surely did.

Digging further is for extreme nitpickers.

Gutenberg didn't "invent" the printing press either. Movable type dates back to 11th century China if you really want accurate attribution. Except for the purposes of the history of the modern world, Gutenberg's invention is most relevant/accurate.

My internet usage started on university systems back in the 80s, along with BBS and usenet and I had never heard the term Open Source even once until 1998.

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CogitoCogito4y ago· 2 in thread

So they popularized (or maybe co-opted?) the term then. They didn't coin it. How is this nitpicking? Saying they coined the term is clearly false.

busterarmOP4y ago

Because as far as they know they did. It came up in meetings they had saying "what should we call this?" per your own link!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_discovery

CogitoCogito4y ago

I'm not really sure what your point is anymore. If you agree that they were not the first ones to use the term, then we are on the same page. If you agree that open source was used as a term before the OSI came along and decided the define the term in a specific way, then we are in agreement.

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