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.
(Score: 2) by shortscreen on Thursday July 19 2018, @05:40AM (1 child)
There is a license for people who can't bring themselves to care about licenses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unlicense [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday July 19 2018, @01:50PM
I understand the sentiment of not caring about licenses. I think it is a shame that we must waste so much time on that.
It is the proprietary software, the music, movie and other industry, and greedy corrupt politicians that force us to have to care about licenses.
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