Comments by "SterileNeutrino" (@SterileNeutrino) on "Eric Raymond u0026 Lunduke Argue About the Origin of "Open Source"" video.

  1.  @googIesux  Indeed
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  2. You mean when you get a copy of the latest punched cards for the Jacquard Loom?
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  3. The Necronomicon should never have been put under CC-BY
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  4. I can't remember much source floating around but then I was only active from late 80s. Wasn't the "OpenX" stuff the stuff that was actually closed, but you could a manual of the API, too? I have an article in french from "Science & Vie" in front of me where connection of home machines to BBS over modem is explained (yup, not even ISDN and the modems were patrolled by France Telecom). Concerning available softs, the author only makes the distinction between "freeware" and "shareware", and indeed the concept of "open source" would not have made much sense to home users, it was either source for some BASIC interpreter, assembly and sometimes you would get some C, and it was either "free" or "share"
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  5. A quick shufti at IEEE Xplore reveals: "Documenting Open Systems" by Elizabeth Connolly, Director, Documentation and Tools from the "Open Software Foundation", 1990 is the earliest example talking about "Open Systems", although it doesn't use the construction "Open Source". The document "Internetnews Server: Inside an Open-Source Project" by David C. Lawrence, September 1998, is the first that uses the construction "Open Source" in the desired sense. There is also an article from 1994 which uses "open source" in the sense of "publicly available information", which is not what we want.
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  6.  @Topher_Knows  Sure sure, but when did it start to be called "Open Source" with all the semantics attached to that term as you say? There was a time before GPL ... I can't even remember what the licenses of all those programs on "Fish Disks" were - they were called freeware or shareware or public domain
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  7. In the ACM digital library, the first entry is "Three Reviews of the Minnowbrook 98 Conference September 22-25, 1998" by Ray Polivka: "Almost a complete session was devoted to Linux. It has built up a reputation as a very stable operating system. It has benefited from open source code software development. Lots of different people and organizations have contributed to its development including IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle, etc. ..."
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  8. As the name indicates, Norbert Wiener was at the forefront of the patriarchy
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