From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,18b00985106487ae X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-03-30 03:54:52 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.ash.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ash.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <40696000.9030109@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Licensing issues (Was: [Announce] Mneson : persistent untyped graphs) References: <83I9c.25796$w54.167855@attbi_s01> <40681380.4080901@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:54:52 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.0.245 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net 1080647692 209.165.0.245 (Tue, 30 Mar 2004 03:54:52 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 03:54:52 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6670 Date: 2004-03-30T11:54:52+00:00 List-Id: Yeah, except under law (and for good reason) nobody can claim ownership of "Open Source" until they pay to have the "(tm)" put next to it. Even then, the government may not grant the exclusive right because it may have been in too much use in that same context before someone wanted to own it. (People have been calling things "Open Source" before OSI decided they wanted to be the exclusive definer of the term.) Let's see how far Donald Trump gets with trying to trademark "You're Fired!" ;-) MDC Stephen Leake wrote: > > That's what capitals are for in English; "Open Source" is the specific > term, "open source" is the general. Get used to it :). > > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m o d c @ a m o g c n i c . r "Face it ladies, its not the dress that makes you look fat. Its the FAT that makes you look fat." -- Al Bundy ======================================================================