Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 01, 2006 04:03 PM
nope. if only...
The "open source" label came out of a strategy session[3] held at Palo Alto in reaction to Netscape's January 1998 announcement of a source code release for Navigator. The group of individuals at the session included Christine Peterson who suggested "open source" and also included Todd Anderson, Larry Augustin, John Hall, Sam Ockman, and Eric S. Raymond. They used the opportunity before the release of Navigator's source code to clarify a potential confusion caused by the ambiguity of the word free in English, so that the preception of free software is not anti-commercial.
We realized it was time to dump the confrontational attitude that has been associated with "free software" in the past and sell the idea strictly on the same pragmatic, business-case grounds that motivated Netscape. We brainstormed about tactics and a new label. "Open source," contributed by Chris Peterson, was the best thing we came up with.
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Re:that's not any more stupid
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 01, 2006 04:03 PMThe "open source" label came out of a strategy session[3] held at Palo Alto in reaction to Netscape's January 1998 announcement of a source code release for Navigator. The group of individuals at the session included Christine Peterson who suggested "open source" and also included Todd Anderson, Larry Augustin, John Hall, Sam Ockman, and Eric S. Raymond. They used the opportunity before the release of Navigator's source code to clarify a potential confusion caused by the ambiguity of the word free in English, so that the preception of free software is not anti-commercial.
source: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source" title="wikipedia.org">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source</a wikipedia.org>
We realized it was time to dump the confrontational attitude that has been associated with "free software" in the past and sell the idea strictly on the same pragmatic, business-case grounds that motivated Netscape. We brainstormed about tactics and a new label. "Open source," contributed by Chris Peterson, was the best thing we came up with.
source: <a href="http://www.opensource.org/docs/history.php" title="opensource.org">http://www.opensource.org/docs/history.php</a opensource.org>
So, basically, brown-nosing the korporate "suits" was the reason behind this re-branding.
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