Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:12:10
From: James Walker <walker@metalab.unc.edu>
To: Design & People <support@designandpeople.org>
Subject: found it! - Re: will find out!  - Re: Open source


  I have wrestled "the Internet" to my will  :)
  Here's the only thing i could find stating the source of the term "Open Source" ...
  but it is by Eric S. Raymond, the recognised, unofficial "official recorder" of open-source
  and "hacking" history.

  The Origins of "Open Source"
  http://catb.org/esr/writings/homesteading/hacker-revenge/ar01s05.html
     3rd paragraph:
     Hence the term "open source", which the first participants in what would
     later become the Open Source campaign (and, eventually, the Open Source
     Initiative organization) invented at a meeting held in Mountain View the
     offices of VA Research on 3 February 1998.

  "Open Source" as a broad idea:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source
  (It doesn't say if they *used* the term, just mentions the concept.)
     "The concept of open source and free sharing of technological information
     has existed long before computers existed. There is open source pertaining
     to businesses and there is open source pertaining to computers, software,
     and technology. In the early years of automobile  development, ..."


  A couple other links in case they are useful to you: sources of the Open Source Definition:
  The Open Source Definition "was based on the Debian Free Software Guidelines, 
  written and adapted primarily by Bruce Perens."
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Definition

  The draft of the Open Source Definition, by Bruce Perens.
  http://perens.com/OSD.html

  thanks for great question! I learned something today.

  -- James