“We called it Free Software at first. It wasn’t until we started
calling it Open Source that the punditry line counts began creeping
up higher than the code line counts. We had this baby and we were
proud of it, and the deep rooted insecurity born of being the
ridiculed and utterly misunderstood underdogs made us require the
approval of business and Grandma Bessie before we could ourselves
be satisfied.“Well, now we’ve got it, and in some ways Open Source is not
better off because of it…”
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