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While ESR's link establishes precedence, it doesn't actually tell me what it means in an intelligence context. From Wikipedia [1]: > Open-source intelligence
by gwd 7y ago
While ESR's link establishes precedence, it doesn't actually tell me what it means in an intelligence context.
From Wikipedia [1]:
> Open-source intelligence (OSINT) is data collected from publicly available sources to be used in an intelligence context.
IOW, the "source" in "open-source context" isn't actually talking about "source" as in "source code", but "source" as in "source of information". Not really related.
Whether or not they could trademark the term, when people in our community say "open source", they specifically mean something which matches OSI or FSF's definitions.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_intelligence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_intelligence
- chrisseaton 7y ago> IOW, the "source" in "open-source context" isn't actually talking about "source" as in "source code", but "source" as in "source of information". Not really related. ESR says specifically that it's related - he says the relation is a 'feature' of the name, even.
- pseudalopex 7y agoSome features start as happy accidents. ESR was the president of the OSI when it published the Open Source Definition and applied for the trademark. Justifying a weaker definition can’t be why he called it a feature.