[COFF] [TUHS] 386BSD released

[David Arnold]

David Arnold
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> On 18 Jul 2021, at 13:30, Grant Taylor via COFF <coff at minnie.tuhs.org> wrote:
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> On 7/16/21 10:09 PM, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
>> You can try to argue that it should have a different etymology
> 
> I'm not trying to argue anything.
> 
> If anything, I'm sharing what I think is a different / an alternate understanding.
> 
> I view "open source" (case insensitive) as having two different definitions, much like "hacker" has two almost diametrically opposed definitions depending which community you're in.
> 
> The dualism exists, and I believe that there's nothing that I can do to change that.  So why try?

That horse bolted when the Open Source folks claimed their definition..

“Open” was a widely used term at the time, with Open Systems in particular being a thing complete with history, corporate good will, conferences and magazines and so on.  It was particularly valuable as the respectable corporate face of Unix (vs the feared hairy hacker). 

The attempt to leverage/hijack that to make the hairy hackers’ Free Software corporately palatable has eclipsed the uncapitalized sense of the term.  Very few people distinguish the two, and so your meaning will often be lost. 




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