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WIRED:The first reactions to the Wikileaks data fell into three camps, which should all be debated

I HAVE written a great deal in this column about “open source software”, a term coined by technologist Christine Peterson in 1998 to describe software that was openly developed and freely modifiable. “Open source”, though, has an older meaning in a different context.