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Re:MAME is now Free and Open Source Software by nailer on Saturday March 05, 2016 @09:04AM (#11229522)
> Confusingly, MAME is often referred to as open source (lowercase)

That's stupid. Open Source has a meaning, which is the OSD: changing case doesn't alter that meaning. You can get source code for Windows 10 too (if you work at the right university) that doesn't mean Windows 10 is open source any more than old-MAME was.

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Re:MAME is now Free and Open Source Software by maaku on Saturday March 05, 2016 @10:09AM (#11229670)
The phrase "open source" does predate the OSD.
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Re:MAME is now Free and Open Source Software by jordigh on Saturday March 05, 2016 @10:42AM (#11229750)
No, everyone seems to believe that, but it does not. The phrase did not exist before 1998, when OSI published the OSD and Tim O'Reilly viciously promoted it:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=open+source&ca...

http://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/5-things-we-have-forgot...

http://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-meme-hustler

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Re:MAME is now Free and Open Source Software by nailer on Saturday March 05, 2016 @03:23PM (#11230905)
That's an excellent set of references. I've posted the second one to New: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11230832
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Re:MAME is now Free and Open Source Software by maaku on Saturday March 05, 2016 @04:16PM (#11231126)
The phrase "open source" predates its use in software.
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Re:MAME is now Free and Open Source Software by Flimm on Monday March 07, 2016 @10:23AM (#11239336)
That graph from Google trends seems to contradict that point.
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