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by daniel_riel 1052 days ago
Perhaps the real trickery is the OSI's shady lawyer led campaign after they were denied the trademark on open-source(tm)

https://opensource.org/pressreleases/certified-open-source.p...

And after they had admitted that:

> While there is agreement on the broad term "open source" as meaning approximately what is captured in the Open Source Definition the term has, ironically, now become so popular that it has lost some of its precision.

https://web.archive.org/web/20060411080543/http://www.openso...

To pressure developers that believe in "open-source" as in the opposite of "closed-source", to also accept their entire anti-developer property "Free Software" ideology.