The Cathedral and the Bizarre

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by sph • 9 months ago

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sparkie• 9 months ago

Before Raymond, the phrase 'open source' had a definite meaning in computing which is quite different from the sense it has now. In 1990 when you said a program was 'open source', you meant that you could read the source code; the actual code the person had written to create the program.
Raymond's usage of the phrase was so influential that it has now transplanted the original usage.

The term "open source" wasn't used until the late 90s. Christine Peterson is credited with introducing it in 1998[1]. We called it free software, source available, or whatever else, but not "open source". They wanted a new term to separate themselves from "free software" and the FSF, whose ideas they partly disagreed with, which became the the OSI and the "Open Source Definition".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source#Open_source_as_a_t...

The Cathedral and the Bizarre

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