On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 19:41 -0400, Rob wrote: > 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. Pemmican? Is that Canadian for "beef jerky"? ;-)