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The OSI should trademark the phrase "open source". License it for anyone claiming their software is open source (as defined by OSI), and send cease and desists
by idbehold 10y ago
The OSI should trademark the phrase "open source". License it for anyone claiming their software is open source (as defined by OSI), and send cease and desists to anyone who is using the phase incorrectly.
- icebraining 10y agoThey can't: We have discovered that there is virtually no chance that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office would register the mark "open source"; the mark is too descriptive. Ironically, we were partly a victim of our own success in bringing the `open source' concept into the mainstream. https://news.slashdot.org/story/99/06/17/0213251/esr-on-the-open-source-trademark https://news.slashdot.org/story/99/06/17/0213251/esr-on-the-...