Quoting Rohan McLeod (rhn@jeack.com.au):

Probably old-hat to everyone else; but "open-source" seems to be taking on a political life of it's own. I was listening to Michael Mackenzie;

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/michael-mackenzie/3112224

doing an interview with a young women, regarding "open-source " research

see for example : http://www.mmv.org/research-development/open-access-malaria-box http://www.mmv.org/research-development/open-source-research

and wondered whether either, were aware of it's origins as as a software 'philosophy ' ?

Probably. Two things: 1. 'Open source' in the software sense is now being applied as a metaphorical concept to other things. Without following links, I will guess that this young woman's notion of 'open-source research' is one of those, and refers to what it more properly called 'open research. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_research 2. The term 'open source' did have established meanings in some areas _other_ than software before the founders of OSI created the notion of 'open source' as a more-competent marketing programme for free software. For example, in espionage, 'open source' data is data gleaned from non-covert sources such as magazines, newspapers, scholarly works, government publications, books, etc.