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From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net>
Cc: coff@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [COFF] [TUHS] 386BSD released
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2021 09:41:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YPWBD+gxDTo+Xy13@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <739a4ab8-352a-060c-115f-e2f14dd7dfc7@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net>

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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  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-19 13:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <CAKH6PiVCjo3YnTZUVYOCDeffQ6POVwGAQA1QMR9UinkfGn+AmQ@mail.gmail.com>
2021-07-15  6:33   ` Michael Kjörling
2021-07-15 20:44     ` Derek Fawcus
2021-07-15 15:07   ` Clem Cole
2021-07-15 19:33     ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2021-07-15 20:30       ` Clem Cole
2021-07-16  1:58         ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2021-07-16  2:14           ` George Michaelson
2021-07-16 18:02           ` Grant Taylor via COFF
2021-07-17  4:09             ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2021-07-17  6:30               ` [COFF] " Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via COFF
2021-07-17 12:37                 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2021-07-17 13:30                   ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via COFF
2021-07-18  3:29               ` [COFF] [TUHS] " Grant Taylor via COFF
2021-07-18  3:42                 ` David Arnold
2021-07-18  4:01                   ` Grant Taylor via COFF
2021-07-19 13:41                     ` Theodore Y. Ts'o [this message]
2021-07-19 14:50                       ` Clem Cole
2021-07-19 17:38                         ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2021-07-19 19:33                           ` John P. Linderman
2021-07-19 20:21                             ` Clem Cole
2021-07-20  1:05                             ` Grant Taylor via COFF
2021-07-19 20:08                           ` Clem Cole
2021-07-20  0:55                             ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2021-07-18  6:44                   ` Andy Kosela
2021-07-16 16:11         ` Jonathan Corbet
2021-07-15 23:02       ` joe mcguckin
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     [not found] ` <213a4c11-3ab2-4b4a-8d6b-b52105a19711@localhost>
     [not found]   ` <CAE49LGn-gY9eikkwUgS+i3p=ZQV+gk_3BJ5V4_6B4HPbdyRuZw@mail.gmail.com>
2021-07-14 15:01     ` Clem Cole
2021-07-14 17:40       ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2021-07-14 17:50         ` Larry McVoy
2021-07-14 18:28         ` Clem Cole
2021-07-14 20:03         ` John Cowan

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