The OSI, which stands for Open Source Initiative, is an organisation which promotes open source software.
The organisation was founded by Bruce Perens and Eris S. Raymond, in february 1998. Eric S. Raymond is the person most identified in the OSI, he was president from its founding until February 2005. The current president is Michael Tiemann.
In 1997 Eric S. Raymond presented a work on engineering of software, which was trying to show the advantages of engineering.
At the beginning of 1998, Netscape Communications Corporation together with Raymond, published the source code of their product as free software, giving hard competition with the software Internet Explorer of Microsoft.
A group of people who were interested in the free software decided to introduce a term of marketing for the free software, and positioned it as amicably for business and with less ideological load in their competition with the propietary software. This created the term Open Source (opened code)
link to the web: http://www.opensource.org/
In 1997 Eric S. Raymond presented a work on engineering of software, which was trying to show the advantages of engineering.
At the beginning of 1998, Netscape Communications Corporation together with Raymond, published the source code of their product as free software, giving hard competition with the software Internet Explorer of Microsoft.
A group of people who were interested in the free software decided to introduce a term of marketing for the free software, and positioned it as amicably for business and with less ideological load in their competition with the propietary software. This created the term Open Source (opened code)
link to the web: http://www.opensource.org/
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