On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Andrew Lih <andrew....@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Tim, I am not too sure about this. No single piece of open source > software > > comes to my mind when hearing bay area or silicon Valley. And no people > > living there and no company located there. Except the Gnu c compiler and > > may postgres no single piece of open source software came out of the > United > > states, at least not without pressure from software from other countries, > > mostly German speaking, Scandinavia, Asia. > > > > Might I suggest, then, that you're not very familiar with open source > software. The basis of modern UNIX is BSD, and its related free license, > out of Berkeley, California. Add to that the output of major firms like Sun > Microsystems (Java) and Google (Android) for their contributions to the > FLOSS landscape, and it's hard to find anywhere else in the world with more > impact. And the term open source was coined at a meeting in Palo Alto, in response to Netscape's release of Mozilla's source code in Mountain View.[1] Luis [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_free_and_open-source_software#The_launch_of_Open_Source which says the phrase was "adopted" in Palo Alto, but OSI's official history <http://opensource.org/history> says "created". I'd edit the page to add a citation, but I'm the author of the current OSI history so I'd rather not... -- Luis Villa Sr. Director of Community Engagement Wikimedia Foundation *Working towards a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.* _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
