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A comment on Stallman’s Law. Parent comment

Re:Stallman’s Law by misrepresent on Monday November 28, 2016 @02:18AM (#13053939)
And yet, if I look at:

    https://archive.org/stream/CathedralAndTheBazaar/cathedral-bazaar_djvu.txt
I see that Eric Raymond used the term on November 18th 1997. Wanna place a bet that I can't find an earlier use than that? Perhaps you shouldn't trust everything you read as definitive...
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Re:Stallman’s Law by misrepresent on Monday November 28, 2016 @03:05AM (#13054083)
Well, it looks like I was wrong about the origin of the term. I misread Eric Raymond's changelog, and after a half hour of searching I can't find an earlier use. (I wish there was a usable search for old usenet postings...)

Anything else I said still stands though - including that it's foolish to try and paint everyone with the same brush.

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