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The "open source" term will take a beating
The "open source" term will take a beating
Posted Jan 5, 2007 18:34 UTC (Fri) by kingdon (subscriber, #4526)Parent article: Looking forward to 2007
Interesting to see the prediction about "open source", as I just wrote about that.
In a nutshell, this kind of dilution of a term is completely par for the course when a concept is getting popular (I am old enough to remember how for a time everything was described as "object-oriented"), and tends to correct itself once the hype dies down.
Am I talking the Pollyanna approach? Do we need to fight for our precious Open Source Definition?
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The "open source" term will take a beating
Posted Jan 11, 2007 16:31 UTC (Thu) by robert_s (guest, #42402) [Link]
"Do we need to fight for our precious Open Source Definition?"
No, just call it Free software. The disingenuous suits are far too scared of going anywhere near the F word.