@hopland >it was a joke... see the history of Minix.
It seems that Intel didn't actually bother to work on MINIX themselves (they asked the guy who wrote it if he could cut down the memory usage for them and he did it totally gratis) and instead wrote a few programs that ran with MINIX and made everything totally proprietary.

>that was invented by academians who wanted to get away from big corporations.
That is not true.

It was coined by a few non-academics who didn't like that dastardly freedom and wanted funding for efficient development from corpos; http://catb.org/~esr/open-source.html

As you can see, the very reason for its existence is to attack free software, as; "the term makes a lot of corporate types nervous" and is only about the ideals of functionally better software, faster (technical excellence); "we can make serious gains in the mainstream business world without compromising our ideals and commitment to technical excellence"

His culture is clearly totally different to the free software culture, and he wanted (and still wants) to eliminate that culture; `We suggest that everywhere we as a culture have previously talked about "free software", the label should be changed to "open source".`.

The term was previously used (and still is used) to refer to journalism using whatever publicly available sources are available, which of course causes fractal confusion.


In fact, free software was coined by an academic that found what big corporate were doing was unacceptable and fought against it (Richard Stallman).

Software used to be freely available and if you had the source code, you had freedom (as software did not fall under copyright), but corporate ruined that freedom (first by refusing to provide the source code unless you signed an NDA, agreeing to betray humanity by not sharing, then by refusing to provide the source code at all, then by making software fall under copyright, meaning to have freedom, just the source code was no longer enough - you needed a free license).

>GPL ≠ MIT ≠ BSD ≠ CC.
- There is the GPLv1, GPLv2 & GPLv3 (and Lesser and Affero licenses).
- MIT released many licenses, MIT expat is only one of them.
- There is no "BSD license", there is the 4-clause, 3-clause, 2-clause, 1-clause & 0-clause.
- Creative Commons released many licenses (including disgraceful proprietary ones); i.e. CC BY-SA 4.0, CC0, CC BY 4.0