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Marius Amado Alves wrote:

> OSI did not invent open source.

As far as I know they actually _did_ invent the term - and came with a
quite precise definition of what they meant by it.

Using "open source" in a different meaning is like calling any random
compiler an "Ada compiler".

Jacob
-- 
"The current state of knowledge can be summarised thus:
 In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded."