On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 06:17:00PM -0400, Rob wrote: > So if they are calling themselves open source (note: I don't > think they are) then they would be violating the trademark of > Eric Raymond and his buddies. On the other hand, I have no idea > whether the OSI has gone after violators of its trademark the > way the FSF has gone after GPL violations on software to which > it holds the copyright. Trademarks can be diluted, as you just > did ever-so-slightly with your assertion above. They aren't going after people misusing the term Open Source. I heard that directly from one of their people when I tried to report a blatant misuse. -- Joshua D. Boyd jdboyd@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.jdboyd.net/ http://www.joshuaboyd.org/
