On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 10:41 AM, Andrew Lih andrew.lih@gmail.com wrote:
Tim, I am not too sure about this. No single piece of open source
software
comes to my mind when hearing bay area or silicon Valley. And no people living there and no company located there. Except the Gnu c compiler and may postgres no single piece of open source software came out of the
United
states, at least not without pressure from software from other countries, mostly German speaking, Scandinavia, Asia.
Might I suggest, then, that you're not very familiar with open source software. The basis of modern UNIX is BSD, and its related free license, out of Berkeley, California. Add to that the output of major firms like Sun Microsystems (Java) and Google (Android) for their contributions to the FLOSS landscape, and it's hard to find anywhere else in the world with more impact.
And the term open source was coined at a meeting in Palo Alto, in response to Netscape's release of Mozilla's source code in Mountain View.[1]
Luis
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_free_and_open-source_software#The_la... which says the phrase was "adopted" in Palo Alto, but OSI's official history http://opensource.org/history says "created". I'd edit the page to add a citation, but I'm the author of the current OSI history so I'd rather not...