Re:Airbyte API & Terraform Provider – available in open source
by ewan-mclean on Monday August 07, 2023 @02:25AM
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Fans of Free-Software believe the opposite of "closed source" is not "open-source", apparently they believe the opposite is "source available" - but how many people would agree?
The USPTO denied a trademark and service mark for "open-source" to the OSI when they applied: "So “open-source” is not and cannot become a trademark"
Why should a 10-point list of "Debian's Free Software Guidelines" for the union of public domain software + FSF style Free Software define the opposite of "closed-source"?
Why doesn't the OSI focus on it's own trademark:
"OSI Approved License(tm)", a trademark that it actually owns;
rather than forever trying to harass, bully and shame independent that share all of their code but otherwise eschew "free software" and "public domain software"?
The USPTO denied a trademark and service mark for "open-source" to the OSI when they applied: "So “open-source” is not and cannot become a trademark"
> https://opensource.org/pressreleases/certified-open-source.p...
Why should a 10-point list of "Debian's Free Software Guidelines" for the union of public domain software + FSF style Free Software define the opposite of "closed-source"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_Free_Software_Guideline...
Why should a "Marketing Campaign for for Free Software" dictate what is the opposite of "closed-source" software?
https://web.archive.org/web/19991013094510/http://opensource...
Why doesn't the OSI focus on it's own trademark: "OSI Approved License(tm)", a trademark that it actually owns; rather than forever trying to harass, bully and shame independent that share all of their code but otherwise eschew "free software" and "public domain software"?