[Ads-l] "Open Source" Not in OED

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
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The term "open source," referring to software, is not yet in OED.  The earliest use I see in LexisNexis is PR Newswire, Feb. 23, 1998.

Fred Shapiro

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