open n.
Abbreviation for `open (or left) parenthesis' -- used when
necessary to eliminate oral ambiguity. To read aloud the LISP
form (DEFUN FOO (X) (PLUS X 1)) one might say: "Open defun foo,
open eks close, open, plus eks one, close close."
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open source n.
[common; also adj. `open-source'] Term coined in March 1998
following the Mozilla release to describe software distributed in
source under licenses guaranteeing anybody rights to freely use,
modify, and redistribute, the code. The intent was to be able to
sell the hackers' ways of doing software to industry and the
mainstream by avoid the negative connotations (to suits) of the term "free software". For discussion of the
followon tactics and their consequences, see the Open Source Initiative site.