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by teddyh 1163 days ago
> All of these claims are untrue. Here is an example of open source being used to describe software in 1996.

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.