On Thu August 24 2006 18:43, Lee Revell wrote: > > source" software. The term "open source" is a trademark of > > the Open Source Initiative, and as regards software > Wasn't "open source" already in vernacular use before the OSI > trademarked it? I'm not finding too many references to its use as regards software licensing prior to the registration of opensource.org in 1998, but that may not matter.... ask the millions of people who were making and eating pemmican a century before Con Agra trademarked the word in 1970. Rob
