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"? ;-)
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