My brain I guess, not going to search now for whatever issues from DrDobbs, The C User's Journal, The C/C++ User's Journal, PC Techniques, Computer Shopper, Crash, Your Sinclair, Amiga Format, Input, Byte, C++ Report, MSJ Systems Journal might have been digitalized and in what page the magic words appear.
Your brain only really counts if you have some records of you using the term like this and people understanding you as such over 20 years ago. Otherwise there should be some published materials available to back up your claim. This is a list of the names of magazines and doesn't really help much. Can you provide some specific references of this usage?
Either way it doesn't really matter. The only ones that really care about licenses are legal and they know what open source means.
Yes, advertising, code listings and developer product reviews in those magazines, but I guess now facts only count if they are pasted into some random Website.
Which by the way, plenty of fellow HNers have provided in multiple answers using other sources.
I'm not asking for links (although that is nice). I am asking for an actual reference rather than a list of magazine titles. References look something like: Name of publication, date, volume or issue number, page number. E.g. something like Computer Magazine, Issue 10, 1995, page 15. You have claimed widespread usage so several references will be needed to establish that.
Yeah, because you will just go to the shop buy that Computer Magazine, Issue 10, 1995.
Do you realize the stupidity of asking for such kind of proof, when everyone else on this thread old enough to be working back then has made similar statements?
So now I need to go to the local library and dig through incomplete archives of 70 and 80's programming magazines to make a random dude happy on Internet?!?
I have more productive stuff to do with my time, and to be honest even that Computer Magazine, Issue 10, 1995, page 15 facsmile wouldn't change your mind anyway.
Hmm, no. I also remember using the term open source before 1998, but if you make that claim but refuse to provide evidence, then your claim can be dismissed without evidence. The burden of proof is on the person making the claim. This doesn't mean your claim isn't true, it just means there's no reason for the person you're talking with to believe you.
When you resort to,"I have more productive stuff to do with my time" you need to realize you are wasting their time just as much. When asked for evidence you don't have, the appropriate response is simply, "yeah, I can't support my claim, so I guess it's just an anicdote." End of discussion.
