On Thu August 24 2006 18:43, Lee Revell wrote:
   source"
software.  The term "open source" is a trademark of
 the Open Source Initiative, and as regards software 
 Wasn't "open
source" already in vernacular use before the OSI
 trademarked it? 
 
I'm not finding too many references to its use as regards
software licensing prior to the registration of 
opensource.org
in 1998, but that may not matter.... ask the millions of people
who were making and eating pemmican a century before Con Agra
trademarked the word in 1970.
Rob