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simonw on March 25, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Skype55 deobfuscated version released

I don't believe that the term "open source" was in common use at all prior to the phrase being deliberately coined in a strategy discussion in 1998 http://www.opensource.org/history

caf on March 26, 2012 [–]

For describing software this is likely so, but the phrase has also been a part of the technical jargon of the intelligence community for a lot longer.

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