Sensing Technology As Open Source's New Frontier 51
destinyland writes "Christine Peterson coined the term 'open source.' Now she's proposing the same collaborative sharing approach to sensing technology 'to improve both security and the environment, while preserving — even strengthening — privacy, freedom, and civil liberties...' The Open Source Sensing initiative welcomes individuals and organizations, and warns that 'We have a short window of opportunity for guiding this technology to protect both our security *and* our privacy.' Peterson says that in the long term, 'open source defensive technologies will likely be the only ones capable of keeping up with rapidly-advancing offensive technologies, just as open source software is faster at addressing computer viruses today.' And the EFF's Brad Templeton warns that 'Cheap, ubiquitous sensing has the potential to turn the worlds of privacy and civil rights upside-down... It's not enough for governments to watch people; people have to watch governments.' His solution? 'Learning from the bottom-up approaches of the open source community.'
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Christine Peterson coined the term 'open source.'
Oh no she didn't.
It was Eric S. Raymond.
It *was* Christine Peterson (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.opensource.org/history [opensource.org]
They brainstormed about tactics and a new label. "Open source", contributed by Chris Peterson, was the best thing they came up with.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source [wikipedia.org]
The group of individuals at the session included Christine Peterson who suggested open source.
It wasn't Eric Raymond. He was just in favor of that term over all the others that came up. I'm pretty sure I remember himself saying that on catb.org/~esr/<somewhere>, but I can't find that right now.