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5th Anniversary of Open Source
Augustus De Morgan writes "Five years ago today a brainstorming session in Palo Alto led to the adoption and promotion of the "open source" label. (You can find references to the label much earlier, however.) For some, it was a dark divergence from the free software movement; for others, the beginning of the adoption of key software principles into mainstream. Here's a growing set of resources and stories about the history of free and open source software, and a lament about the decline of altruism in the open source community."
Yes, it certainly is interesting that an article about the term open source being coined 5 years ago (an article about nothing, then) gets on Slashdot, yet there was no mention of the 5 year annerversary of Netscape going open source (when something really did happen).