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		FigBug on April 3, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft: An Open Source Windows Is 'Definitely P... 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.

jordigh on April 3, 2015 [–]

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

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

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