17 Jul
2021
17 Jul
'21
12:30 p.m.
"Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso(a)mit.edu> writes:
[The] common language in the industry is [Open Source]
it means
"License which conforms to the Open Source Definition". That's how
it's been used since 1998[1].
I seem to remember, relatively shortly after that, a tendency on the net
to differentiate between "open source" and "Open Source". Earlier in
this thread, I mentioned MINIX 1, from 1987. That version of the OS was
open source, but not, by the later definition, Open Source.
(Prentice-Hall, being a publishing company, insisted on having the
copyright, but the source code was printed in the book, and you could
order it on floppies or tape for $80.)
-tih
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