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Wait a second, since when did OSI (or any group in particular, for that matter) become the ultimate arbiter on what "open source" means?

I'm not saying this to be argumentative - I don't like the idea of something like that in the hands of a bureaucracy.



1998, when they were founded to start promoting the term "Open Source" over "Free Software" to make GPL/BSD etc license software more business friendly.

I took a quick look through https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=%22open+source... and I couldn't see the term being used in a software context before 1998.


Huh, something's wrong with that link. Should be:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=open+source&ca...




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