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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.
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He was uh.. He was an employee of VA at the time
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Well, we came up with the concept of Open Source,
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we called Linus in fact and asked Linus if he liked it.
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He was interested, He liked it.
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Eventually we came up with something that replaced "Free Software".
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That was the beginning of Open Source.
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[ How did you chose words "Open Source"? ]
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You know, I think Christine Peterson was
the person who really came up with the idea.
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Uh, we wanted, again, the idea
that the source code was out there and it was open.
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There weren't many choices.
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Well, since the fist three recipients have
spoken for the Open Source movement,
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I think I should speak about
the Free Software movement.
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The Open Source movement,
focuses on practical advantages
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that you can get by having a community of users
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who can cooperate on interchanging and improving software.