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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 MichaelDavidCrawford on Wednesday July 18 2018, @10:02PM
It happens that my former employer Live Picture filed for Chapter 11 in 1998, yet they are still active as a corporation.
This because _somebody_ has to administer the 401k accounts of their former employees.
The social security administration once sent me a notice that I had some money in my own Live Picture 401k and provided Live Picture's postal address in Delaware.
It was founded in France then relocated to Scotts Valley California. I expect that Delaware address is that of some manner of service that does nothing other than look after the operations of bankrupt companies.
Real Soon Now I'm going to roll my LP 401k over into an IRA.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]