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We moved here in early 1995.
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This is 4,000 square feet.
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It was an incredible leap of faith for us to
move out and take the company to our own office.
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Now what's really important about this place
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is that this is the office
where the term "Open Source" was invented.
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If you walk in to an executive's office
and say "Free Software",
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OK, If you're lucky, the response
you'll get is something like,
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"hmm, hmm, Free Software, must be
cheap, shoddy, worthless."
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Uh, and if you're not lucky,
it has associations with, uh.
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with the Free Software Foundation's
wholesale attack on intellectual property rights,
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which regardless of what
you think about the ethics of that,
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it's lousy marketing, it's not something
that businesses want to hear.
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So Eric Raymond knew there was a problem.
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We'd been calling this Free Software,
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but people took the term "Free"
and associated with "Free of charge",
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they thought they couldn't make money or couldn't sell,
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which is exactly the wrong concept.
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We wanted to get across the idea the software
was open and that the source code was available.
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Very important pieces.
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We had this meeting at the VA offices
in Mountain View, where Eric,
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myself, and Christine Peterson from Foresight Institute
joined us as well as some other people.
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Christine Peterson was there by phone. uh..
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Jon "Mad dog" Hall was also there by phone. uh..
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And then Todd Anderson, who later worked for
SuSE for a while was there.
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Sam Ockman who now runs Penguin Computing was there.