19 Jul
2021
19 Jul
'21
7:41 p.m.
On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 10:01:16PM -0600, Grant Taylor via COFF wrote:
On 7/17/21 9:42 PM, David Arnold wrote:
If anyone can show any examples of people actually *using* the term
"open source" in the sense of "sources are available" before the Open
Source Definition was promulgated, that would be great. But
otherwise, I think you're trying to retrofit a definition that was
never historically used.
- Ted
Very few people distinguish the two, and so your
meaning will often be lost.
Lost and forgotten is quite different than non-existent. ;-)