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I said "widely understood", which is true irrespective of whether a court has ruled on it. There's a huge ecosystem which is underpinned by the OSD. There are
by rectang 5y ago
I said "widely understood", which is true irrespective of whether a court has ruled on it. There's a huge ecosystem which is underpinned by the OSD.
There are also a handful of orgs (most prominently a few VC-funded companies) who want to freeload on the goodwill of "Open Source" to market their proprietary software. And there are some Free Software advocates who dislike the very term "Open Source". (Not that "Free Software" has court-endorsed clarity either.)
- teilo 5y agoIt may be "widely understood" but one could just as well argue that open source is "widely misunderstood." What matters is how the courts understand the term, and that, unfortunately, has not been resolved.