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posted by janrinok on Thursday February 01 2018, @07:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the well,-now-you-know dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Christine Peterson finally publishes her account of the day that the term "open source software" was coined, 20 years ago.

In a few days, on February 3, the 20th anniversary of the introduction of the term "open source software" is upon us. As open source software grows in popularity and powers some of the most robust and important innovations of our time, we reflect on its rise to prominence.

I am the originator of the term "open source software" and came up with it while executive director at Foresight Institute. Not a software developer like the rest, I thank Linux programmer Todd Anderson for supporting the term and proposing it to the group.

This is my account of how I came up with it, how it was proposed, and the subsequent reactions. Of course, there are a number of accounts of the coining of the term, for example by Eric Raymond and Richard Stallman, yet this is mine, written on January 2, 2006.

The article is not going to change the world, but it is an interesting piece of history that many in our community will find interesting.

Source: https://opensource.com/article/18/2/coining-term-open-source-software


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  • (Score: 2) by Arik on Friday February 02 2018, @07:29PM

    by Arik (4543) on Friday February 02 2018, @07:29PM (#632117) Journal
    No, hardware is the parts of the system that are fixed, while software is the part that's user modifiable. Binaries are hardware. Something like an obfuscated expansion board you can install or remove but cannot effectively alter. Software means source, and a working compiler.
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