[COFF] [TUHS] 386BSD released

Theodore Y. Ts'o tytso at mit.edu
Mon Jul 19 23:41:35 AEST 2021


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:
> > Very few people distinguish the two, and so your meaning will often be lost.
> 
> Lost and forgotten is quite different than non-existent.  ;-)

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


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