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Confusingly, MAME is often referred to as open source (lowercase)

That's stupid. Open Source has a meaning, which is the OSD: changing case doesn't alter that meaning. You can get source code for Windows 10 too (if you work at the right university) that doesn't mean Windows 10 is open source any more than old-MAME was.

The phrase "open source" does predate the OSD.

No, everyone seems to believe that, but it does not. The phrase did not exist before 1998, when OSI published the OSD and Tim O'Reilly viciously promoted it:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=open+source&ca...

http://jordi.inversethought.com/blog/5-things-we-have-forgot...

http://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-meme-hustler

That's an excellent set of references. I've posted the second one to New: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11230832

The phrase "open source" predates its use in software.

That graph from Google trends seems to contradict that point.

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