[advocacy-discuss] Is opensolaris 100% opensource?

[Joerg Schilling]

Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM> wrote:

> >> (Please avoid the "OSS" acronym as it's overloaded, and could refer to either
> >>  "Open Source Software" or "Open Sound System.")
> > 
> > If people write OSS, they mean "Open Source Software" since many years.
> > Unfortunately some people recently did start a confusion with "Open Sound 
> > System."
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sound_System :
>   OSS was created in 1992 by Hannu Savolainen
>
> Doesn't sound that recent to me, especially since the term "Open Source
> Software" wasn't created until quite a few years later.

The OpenSource movement exists since the late 1970s and has most likely been 
founded by Larry Wall.

Jörg

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