Christine Peterson

I ran it by at least four others: Eric Drexler, Mark Miller, and Todd Anderson liked it, while a friend in marketing and public relations felt the term "open" had been overused and abused and believed we could do better.

He was right in theory; however, I didn't have a better idea... Later that week, on February 5, 1998, a group was assembled at VA Research to brainstorm on strategy.

Eric listed "free software," "open source," and "sourceware" as the main options.

After this, there was a period during which the term was promoted by Eric Raymond to the media, by Tim O'Reilly to business, and by both to the programming community.

In 1997 she coauthored Leaping the Abyss: Putting Group Genius to Work with Gayle Pergamit.