Re:Defold game engine source now available and free to use f...
by vertex-four on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @10:38AM
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Ah, thank you. Either way, one company using the term once before that doesn't mean that it is a phrase in common usage. It also doesn't mean that the term hasn't changed to mean something else in the eyes of hundreds of thousands of developers since them, and using it to mean its plain meaning will only ever cause confusion, and potentially result in people doing things you didn't want with the source code.
Epic, Microsoft, IBM, and hundreds of other companies, big and small, have been careful to avoid this issue specifically because there is an existing definition and it causes confusion.
Oops, that was a typo on my part, the OSI claims to have invented it in 1998 not 1988, updated my original post here too
See the source: https://opensource.com/article/18/2/coining-term-open-source...