Ossification comes from os, ossis: bones in Latin. Turning into bones. Stops being flexible. Common behavior becomes de facto specification. There's stuff that'

Ossification comes from os, ossis: bones in Latin. Turning into bones. Stops being flexible. Common behavior becomes de facto specification. There's stuff that's allowed by the specification but not expected by implementations because things have always worked like this. It's not related to open source software. The seemingly matching prefix is coincidence :-) https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/ossification https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/ossification