English
InnerSource
From inner + source; coined by Irish-American author and publisher Tim O'Reilly in 2000.
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én ‘in’
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Proto-West Germanic *in ‘in’
Old English in ‘in’
Old English innera ‘inner’
Middle English inner
English inner
Proto-Indo-European *h₃reǵ- ‘to straighten’
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Old French sordre ‘to rise’
Old French sors
Old French sorse ‘rise, beginning, spring, source’
Middle English sours
English source
The story
From inner + source; coined by Irish-American author and publisher Tim O'Reilly in 2000.
Today it means
noun The use of open source software development best practices and the establishment of an open source-like culture within organizations, for the development of software that is proprietary or not open source.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
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