It's also worth reading the OSI's launch announcement, which is very focused on the trademark https://web.archive.org/web/20000408035603/http://opensource.org/p

It's also worth reading the OSI's launch announcement, which is very focused on the trademark https://web.archive.org/web/20000408035603/http://opensource.org/press_releases/osi-launch.html https://web.archive.org/web/20000408035603/http://opensource... The trademark is front and center in their (original) mission statement: > The Open Source Initiative's mission will be to own and defend the Open Source trademark, to manage the www.opensource.org resources, to develop branding programs attractive to software customers and producers, and to advance the cause of open-source software and serve the hacker community in other appropriate ways.