@Topher_Knows
We were using the term 'Open Source' in the 80s regularly. How is this even disputable? I come from the Sun Micro Unix world of the 80s, and projects were named Open this and Open that, because the source was open. We all called it Open Source and none of it was exclusive to Sun users, I'm just adding my recollection of events. A huge chunk of Unix was indeed listed as Open Source, and when something broke, we oftentimes were fixing our own systems and needed source code access. So if this was true in the 80s, I'm willing to bet it was true in the 70s. Now you're going to make me dig through archives, because saying it was a term coined in the 90s, is absolutely preposterous.
@madstork91
The term "open-source" was first used as far back as 1957 - according to merriam-webster - to mean "publicly available for use by the community at large" - I suggest we save this as quickly as possible, as merriam webster has been known to change definitions to fit a narrative.
@FuzzeeDee
I’ve been learning computers since 1981. I distinctly remember the term open source software in common usage on forums since 1994
@vasenkasi4846
The Archdemon Lunduke steals the credit from an innocent woman, only because the credit was built upon a tower of lies.
@gregmurdoch3264
He's admitting he's wrong, but doesn't have the dignity or self-respect to admit it.
@DS-pk4eh
I remember reading my computer magazines in late 80's articles mentioning open source. To be fair, imagine you are at the party and you start off with "I invented the open source", you would be so so so popular.
@tinkerwithstuff
The concept of "open source", though, is older than computer software
@jeffk1485
I was not heavily in to the Open Source Movement™ back in the 90s, but I was aware of the term "Open Source Software" as being in common use by 1995 at the latest.
@catsonlinux
well keep in mind open source was also used by stallman himself as a term back in the 80s so idk
@KirkFickert
I remember debating open source licenses (GPL v. BSD) with other nerds in the mid 90's and we were using the term open source by 1995. I mean BSD actually made its way into peoples desktops, laptops, and pockets thanks to OSX & IOS.
@madstork91
The first time I heard the term, "Open Source" was the first time I visited the home of my new stepdad and mother in 1994. He was running an odd operating system on a computer upstairs in the loft above the garage. Me: "What's this?" SD: "Linux. It's a new open source operating system." (1.0 was released in 1994, iirc) ME: "What's that?" conversation continues...
@quoudten
Surely it was used before 1998...
@user-kt0jl90sfwj8cb
I hate people who take other people's credit for themselves with all my heart. I hate people who brag about it even more.
@stony4321
Google SEO can change history. Remember a Indian guy invented Email.
@jtjames79
HP Lovecraft invented open source. Well HP Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, and many others. The history of this can be found in the forwards and copyright letters done for each other by each other. Finding the original quote is quite difficult. But HP Lovecraft wrote to a publisher, not only allowing one of his contemporaries to use his intellectual property, but encouraging it using words like "allowed to mutilate", "maim", "murder", "mutate", and other colorful adjectives in his permissions. The cult of Cthulhu was a real thing. It was just a real imaginary thing, among authors that didn't have vocabulary to express concepts like open source and copy left. They were the first, because they were used to thinking outside of the box. Can you really tell me that open source isn't an eldric meme/being? Because my model that it is, has served me quite well.
@robmc120
Fallacious moving the goalposts is the weirdness youre feeling. May God bless you always Lunduke.
@icebalm
The passion for demanding that "open source" did not exist before 1998 is because if they coined the term then they get to determine what it means. ESR betrays that purpose when he said the meaning and intent of Caldera's use was different than his in an effort to demonstrate why their usage of the term didn't matter and Christine's "invention" does.
@hegjon
Being offended is not an argument
@MichaelZijlstra
Being a computer nerd in the 90s I'm pretty sure I heard the term before 1998. Have no proof, but 1998 seems very late in my mind.
@contentsdiffer5958