[dstaley]

This article has no citations for the history/use of the term. It was largely written by a single editor over a decade ago.

[stronglikedan]

> over a decade ago

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Also: https://www.computerweekly.com/blog/Open-Source-Insider/What...

[stefan_]

That's exactly the kind of article that gets written from a page on Wikipedia.

[dstaley]

Furthermore the "definition" they provide is something they came up with; a Google search for portions of the definition only returns results for the article itself.

[stronglikedan]

Then your Google isn't my Google. If the definition is used on sr.ht[0], then it's pretty much galvanized. Not to mention that I've heard it used that very way over the decades that I've been in software development.

[0] https://meta.sr.ht

[fouc]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18458908 people are using the term 3 months ago