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by jdub 1243 days ago
Software Freedom is an ideology. Open Source is a definition.
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Well the trademark is going the way of bandaid, and definitions change regularly.

Edit: I see you edited that part out.

The OSI definition hasn't changed. It barely changed what it borrowed from the Debian Free Software Guidelines before that.

("Open Source" itself isn't a trademark, but the OSI bits are, so I removed it to avoid confusion.)

(There's no indication that the legal construction of a trademark is "going the way of the bandaid", or that bandaids are "going the way of the bandaid" for that matter.)