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by kube-system
1164 days ago
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> The wording existed previously, yes, but only as a technical term in intelligence gathering. Applied to software, on the other hand, the term is new, created by the OSI, which gave it a strict definition from day one. People cannot have heard of the term unless it came from OSI. Any claim of deviation from the OSI meaning, then, can be simply discarded as incorrect. All of these claims are untrue. Here is an example of open source being used to describe software in 1996. OSI was founded in 1998. https://web.archive.org/web/20180402143912/http://www.xent.c... > This debate is beyond silly. It’s like arguing about what the rules of, say, Settlers of Catan Commercial board games typically use trademark law to prevent others from changing their rules. Popular games which do not have legally protected names often do have multiple sets of rules defined by different people. e.g poker. |
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Interesting. The attendees of the meeting on February 3rd, 1998 certainly all seem to think that they at least independently re-invented the term, so the term can’t have been very common. The meeting was held two weeks after the announcement of the release of the Netscape source code, and the announcement did not use the term.