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Celebrating the Twentieth Anniversary of Open Source

posted by martyb on Wednesday July 18 2018, @06:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the here's-to-many-more dept.

canopic jug writes:

Tuesday at OSCON, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) has continued the celebration of 20 years of open source. A blog post at the OSI reflects on how Open Source fits in with pre-existing intitiatives.

Open source did not emerge from a void. It was consciously a marketing programme for the already-15-year-old idea of free software and arose in the context of both the GNU Project and the BSD community and their history (stretching back to the late 70s). We chose to reflect this in the agenda for our celebration track at OSCON.

But that doesn't mean its inception is irrelevant. The consensus to define open source at the VA Linux meeting and the subsequent formation of OSI and acceptance of the Open Source Definition changed the phrase from descriptive to a term of art accepted globally. It created a movement and a market and consequently spread software freedom far beyond anyone's expectations. That has to be worth celebrating.

Wikipedia's entry on Open Source provides a great deal of information on its origin and application in multiple fields besides just software.

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  • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 19 2018, @02:15AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 19 2018, @02:15AM (#709145)

    I'll take your code, squash some bugs, and substantially improve it. Thanks, my product is awesome now. Then I'll lock it down and never give you back the improvements. Not even interested in collaborating with you but feel free to BSD license any fixes you might make.

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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday July 19 2018, @07:49PM (1 child)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Thursday July 19 2018, @07:49PM (#709592)

    Thanks, my product is awesome now. Then I'll lock it down and never give you back the improvements.

    A. Are you trying to be hurtful? Because that's the weakest form of envy-ooooooh that's not faaaaaaaair-hurt I can imagine.

    B. How do you think that's any different from what most software thieves do with GPL and every other form of available-for-inspection source anyway?

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 20 2018, @03:40AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 20 2018, @03:40AM (#709780)

      A. Corporations don't feel envy.
      B. Is that a solvable problem?

      Anyway, that's why *I* use GPL instead of other licenses. It's interesting to let loose a creation and see what other people do with it. Much better than having code I write hoovered up by some corporation never to be seen again. Works for me, might not work for everyone.