"I don't think
Scriptics is necessary for the continued existence of
Tcl," Stallman said to hisses from the fellow audience members.See Malcolm
Maclachlan, "Profit Motive Splits Open
Source Movement," TechWeb News (August 26, 1998).
http://content.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19980824S0012
"It was a pretty ugly scene," recalls Prime Time
Freeware's Rich Morin. "John's done some pretty
respectable things: Tcl, Tk, Sprite. He's a real contributor."
Despite his sympathies for Stallman and Stallman's
position, Morin felt empathy for those troubled by
Stallman's discordant behavior.
Stallman's Perl Conference outburst would momentarily
chase off another potential sympathizer, Bruce Perens.
In 1998, Eric Raymond proposed launching the Open
Source Initiative, or OSI, an organization that would
police the use of the term "open source" and provide a
definition for companies interested in making their own
programs. Raymond recruited Perens to draft the definition.See Bruce Perens et
al., "The Open Source Definition,"
The Open Source Initiative (1998).
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