From: Dan Brickley (Daniel.Brickley@bristol.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Aug 23 2000 - 14:55:27 PDT
On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Kragen Sitaker wrote:
[...]
> In the wake of Netscape's announcement, Christine Peterson invented the
> term at a brainstorming session with Eric Raymond and others,
> specifically to describe what the FSF calls "free software". Most of
> those folks went on to found the Open Source Initiative in the next
> week, with the support of the others.
>
> The Open Source Initiative published the Open Source Definition
> (opensource.org/osd), a modified version of the Debian Free Software
> Guidelines, which defines what the OSI means by the term they
> invented. Any other definition is prima facie illegitimate ---
> an attempt to hijack the term.
So does any one know what's up with http://www.opensource.org/ ? Doesn't
seem to have changed much in over a year. All quiet on the OSI front?
Curious,
dan
From http://www.opensource.org/new.html
19 July 1999: Dataquest predicts that Linux will take 25% of the
worldwide server-appliance market by 2003.
7 July 1999: Major reorganization of the site, with a new certification
page.
16 Jun 1999: OSI Certified Open Source mark announced.
16 Jun 1999: Site reorganized. Halloween Documents have been moved to
their own subdirectory; so have the conforming licenses.
7 May 1999: Added The Practical Manager's Guide to Linux to the cases
page.
4 May 1999: Kleiner Perkins invests in Linux. From now on, nobody will
be fired for deploying Linux....
3 May 1999: Updated Board page. New daily transfer record at Walnut
Creek CDROM
18 Jan 1999: Added Jeff Prothero's The Last Dinosaur and the Tarpits of
Doom: How Linux Smashed Windows to the cases page.
18 Dec 1998: Added a FAQ entry on where to get open-source usage
statistics. Also added a section on the open-source case for
entrepreneurs.
8 Dec 1998: Sun Microsystems announces Linux on UltraSparcs and
announces that Solaris will get Linux binary compatibility.
25 Nov 1998: Open Letter to AOL published.
22 Nov 1998: Launch of the Open Source Initiative.
4 Nov 1998: Added the Halloween II document.
1 Nov 1998: Added the Halloween I document.
15 Sep 1998: Added the sound bytes item to the FAQ page, and more to the
FAQ item on trademark usage.
2 Aug 1998: Added Eric Rauch's plot of `open source' hits over time in
the Lexis/Nexis database to the history page.
1 Aug 1998: Added security item to FAQ.
29 July 1998: The Forbes article is out.
21 July 1998: Added the timeline to the history page.
15 July 1998: Added the InterJet entry to the products page.
25 June 1998: Added many items, including the Datapro market study, the
IBM Apache announcement, and John Kirch's devastating white paper on NT
vs. Unix.
3 May 1998: Added Cobalt Microserver, Inc. to the products page.
27 May 1998: Added `Are you guys opposed to intellectual property
rights?' item to the FAQ.
15 May 1998: Added the ``Yahoo and FreeBSD'' case study to the cases
page.
7 May 1998: Corel joins the good guys on the products page.
28 April 1998: Complete visual redesign by treefrog
<chad00000@hotmail.com>. Also, added new material to the press coverage
list.
26 Apr 1998: Added C2Net entry to products page.
19 Apr 1998: Added a page on closed sources and the Y2K problem.
2 Apr 1998: Added Riverace to the products page.
1 Apr 1998: Paragraph on legal entanglements from Jerry Fass
<fass@pitnet.net>.
30 Mar 1998: Added Walnut Creek to the products list.
23 Mar 1998: Added a fourth successful business model and the German
translation of the OSD and rationale.
13 Mar 1998: added a link to the Open Design Circuits proposal.
12 Mar 1998: Added the United Railway Signal Group case study.
1 Mar 1998: Andrew Cervin-Lawry pointed out that the bazaar mode of
software resembles the way Japanese consumer-electronics companies have
traditionally done product development.
27 Feb 1998: Extended discussion of trade secrets vs. open source; when
to choose one over the other. Thanks to Reinoud Lamberts
<dus@casema.net> for challenging us to treat this issue more deeply.
26 Feb 1998: Added discussion of open-source incentives for companies
that are customers of their own developers.
25 Feb 1998: Added Cyclades, Inc. to the products page.
24 Feb 1998: Total rewrite and expansion of site by Eric S. Raymond.
Mid-February 1998: Site brought up by Bruce Perens.
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