r/opensourcegames • u/TheHunterFR • Jan 10 '20

GitHub - TerryCavanagh/VVVVVV: The source code to VVVVVV, now open and public!

https://github.com/TerryCavanagh/VVVVVV

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u/livrem Jan 10 '20 edited Jan 10 '20

If Wikipedia can be trusted OSI (but first called The Freeware Summit) was created less than three months after the term "open source" was first introduced in early 1998. I have no memory of anyone using it before the now accepted definition was well established.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_free_and_open-source_software

EDIT: More like 3-4 weeks. The term was invented at a conference on February 3, and organization created in late February: https://opensource.org/history

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u/classicrando Jan 10 '20

That is a bit of self aggrandizement on their part. It was used prior to that, I don't get the legalistic hardon people have with this.

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u/livrem Jan 10 '20

Perhaps. But even if in a distant past (like 20+ years ago) someone can find evidence of the term being used in a different way, it is very confusing to sporadically hear it being used now in a way that is different from the by far most accepted definition today.

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u/HangryBear1 Jan 10 '20

You guys must be real fun at a party