From the November 12 “Kernel Panic”:
In fact, this strip is incorrect. I did not coin the term “open source”;
I only popularized it. It was coined by
my friend Christine Peterson of the Foresight Institute. While it’s true that I more or less ran the brainstorming session and fortunately had enough of a clue to recognize a winner when it popped up, the creative leap was all hers.
UPDATE: Yes, it now reads “popularized”. Chris Wright changed it.
RNN: Christine Peterson, who lectures on nanotechnology? Christine Peterson, who serves on the Advisory Board of Alameda Capital? Christine Peterson, who co-authored Unbounding the Future: the Nanotechnology Revolution? Christine Peterson, who holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from MIT, is single and lives in the bay area?
ESR: Yeah.
RNN: NAMEDROPPER!
Well, I suppose I’ll have to work that into next week’s strip…
“In fact, this strip is incorrect. I did not coin the term “open source”; I only popularized it”
Isn’t that how the strip already reads? (“Eric Raymond, who popularized the term ‘Open Source?'”). Why post this at all?
It never would have been changed if I hadn’t wandered over here and noticed that it was wrong in the first place.