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0 pointspessimizer12y ago0 comments

This is not even vaguely true.

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jordigh12y ago· 2 in thread

Please read my link. Open source is a term coined by OSI as a replacement synonym for free software. We have somehow culturally forgotten this. We keep repeating some other version of the facts for some reason and have forgotten what "open source" really means.

eli12y ago

The term predates OSI.

jordigh12y ago

No. Please read my link above. This is thing #2 in my link above. Christine Petersen coined the term. OSI was then formed under this term.

There is an unrelated "open source intelligence" older term, about how to spy on people using publicly-available sources, but nobody called software "open source" before OSI. Eric Raymond confirms as much:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/open-source.html

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