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This article has no citations for the history/use of the term. It was largely written by a single editor over a decade ago.



> over a decade ago

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Also: https://www.computerweekly.com/blog/Open-Source-Insider/What...


That's exactly the kind of article that gets written from a page on Wikipedia.


Furthermore the "definition" they provide is something they came up with; a Google search for portions of the definition only returns results for the article itself.


Then your Google isn't my Google. If the definition is used on sr.ht[0], then it's pretty much galvanized. Not to mention that I've heard it used that very way over the decades that I've been in software development.

[0] https://meta.sr.ht


https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18458908 people are using the term 3 months ago




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