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Re: OT: new use of "Open Source"



on Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 01:38:56PM -0400, Alan Shutko (ats@acm.org) wrote:
> Dale Scheetz <dwarf@polaris.net> writes:
> 
> > I just heard an "analyst" on the radio use the term "Open Source" to refer
> > to intelligence information that could be made public!
> 
> Iirc, that's a rather old usage of the term, predating the OSS
> movement.  

Yes, and cited by ESR in several discussions of Open Source.

Peace.

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