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Re:How to pay your rent with your open source project (2020) by wolpoli on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @06:31PM (#32586664)
> Nope. Sorry but you don’t get to hijack the term “open source”. There’s a reason we have gone to considerable lengths to define it https://opensource.org/osd

We have a legal mechanism for dealing with this situation. They could have trademarked the term "Open Source", but that wouldn't be very open then.

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Re:How to pay your rent with your open source project (2020) by stagger87 on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @10:47PM (#32588826)
OSI has admitted they don't believe open source can be trademarked the term because it's too generic, FYI.
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