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> invented by Christine Peterson in the early 90’s to distinguish from GPL-style free software

Invented by Christine Peterson in the 90s, yes (though it was 1998); to distinguish from GPL-style, no. The Open Source Initiative immediately listed the GPL as an Open Source license, and the FSF had already described permissive licensing as free software (as distinct from copyleft licensing).

https://web.archive.org/web/19980119061702/http://www.fsf.or...

> The X Window System illustrates this. The X Consortium releases X11 with distribution terms that make it non-copylefted free software. If you wish, you can get a copy which has those distribution terms and is free. However, there are non-free versions as well, and there are popular workstations and PC graphics boards for which non-free versions are the only ones that work. If you are using this hardware, X11 is not free software for you.

https://web.archive.org/web/19981201223102/http://www.openso...

> GIMP

> Gnome

> Linux

> Open Source is a marketing program for free software. It's a pitch for `free software' on solid pragmatic grounds rather than ideological tub-thumping. The winning substance has not changed, the losing attitude and symbolism have.



If it's a marketing name, it completely misses the essential point that it's about Freedom, not the "open" part of it.


That's what FSF and OSI most disagreed about at the time!


Yeah, and it's a relevant point to disagree on :-)


Absolutely!


>losing attitude Good ways to talk.




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