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Christine Peterson suggested the term open source during a meeting of free software supporters in 1998. This new label aimed to clarify what the movement stood for and attract commercial interest.
The Jacobson v Katzer case emerged as a significant legal precedent in 2008 when it enforced terms of the Artistic license including attribution and identification of modifications. This ruling cemented enforcement under copyright law when license conditions were not followed creating a widely applicable precedent.
A 2024 estimate places value of open-source software to firms at $8.8 trillion requiring three point five times current spending without its use. Seventy-eight percent of companies report running all or part of operations on free and open-source software.
Richard Stallman resigned from MIT in 1984 to create GNU free operating system after programmer culture stifled by proprietary software preventing sharing. He founded Free Software Foundation in 1985 promoting changes in software and helping write GNU.
In 2002 only 1.5 percent of international open-source software developers were women despite women making up 28 percent of tech industry roles. A more recent figure calculated across 2005 to 2021 shows female participation at 9.8 percent mostly among recent contributors indicating growth.