Communications of the ACM
How I Coined the Term Open Source
"I felt that it wouldn't work for me to just blurt out, 'All you technical people should start using my new term,'" Christine Peterson says.
Credit: Faces of Open Source
February 3 is the 20th anniversary of the introduction of the term "open source software." As open source software grows in popularity and powers some of the most robust and important innovations of our time, we reflect on its rise to prominence.
I am the originator of the term "open source software" and came up with it while executive director at Foresight Institute. Not a software developer like the rest, I thank Linux programmer Todd Anderson for supporting the term and proposing it to the group.
This is my account of how I came up with it, how it was proposed, and the subsequent reactions. Of course, there are a number of accounts of the coining of the term, for example by Eric Raymond and Richard Stallman, yet this is mine.
It has never been published, until today.
From OpenSource.com
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