Re: [Fsfe-uk] Wikipedia to merge Free Software and Open Source

[MJ Ray]

"Dave Crossland" <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 08/04/2008, MJ Ray <address@hidden> wrote:
> >  (Wikipedia's current article on OSI conspicuously fails to mention
> >  what the initiative *was* and conflates the original OSI with the OSI
> >  zombie corporation which is still running.)
>
> I hope you'll update the OSI article with information about this someday :-)

Yeah, because that would be 30 minutes work to write up the links
which are available for anyone, but it would last all of about 30
seconds before being reverted by the usual suspect.

The Initiative was to get a US trademark on a term less generic than
"free software" but the "Open Source" trademark is DEAD (search at
uspto.gov), so I say it failed.  But its body keeps twitching.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.opensource.org/
(when its servers come back online) is probably as good a source
as anything.  See also
http://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/resolutions/2001-04-26.nl
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html
although they're not exactly unbiased either.

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