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Re:Why Wolfram tech isn’t open source (2019) by dragonwriter on Sunday December 19, 2021 @08:38PM (#29620659)
> You can see the term gaining popularity prior to 3 Feb 1998

“Open source” has older non-software uses, most notably in the intelligence context, where it picks up sharply in the 1980s:

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

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Re:Why Wolfram tech isn’t open source (2019) by chrisseaton on Monday December 20, 2021 @03:21AM (#29622514)
Did you look at all the references in that article? They aren’t about the intelligence term.
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