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dredmorbius on Dec 10, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Death of an open-source business model

False.

In the application to software, Bruce Perrens most definitely did define ther term, based on the Debian Free Software Guidelines, and the Free Software Foundation's Three Freedoms definition of Free Software, in June 1997:

https://opensource.org/docs/osd

https://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines

https://perens.com/2017/09/26/on-usage-of-the-phrase-open-so...

The term was not previously used with regard to software, though the intelligence community have used the phrase "open sources" to refer to unclassified information.b

chrisseaton on Dec 10, 2020 | [–]

> The term was not previously used with regard to software

This is just not a true thing to say. See my other replies for examples from before 1997.

andrewshadura on Dec 10, 2020 | [–]

Indeed. But to be more precise: Christine invented the term and Bruce precisely defined it based on the DFSG.

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