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Re:DNC just open-sourced their voter registration platform by balpha on Saturday September 01, 2012 @04:08PM (#4464953)
In particular this means that this is anything but open source (at least if you go by the OSI definition, which I do).
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Re:DNC just open-sourced their voter registration platform by chimeracoder on Saturday September 01, 2012 @06:06PM (#4465300)
It also precludes it from being free software, as defined by the FSF.
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Re:DNC just open-sourced their voter registration platform by mindcrime on Saturday September 01, 2012 @08:50PM (#4465711)
In particular this means that this is anything but open source (at least if you go by the OSI definition, which I do).

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. I know some pedants argue that OSI don't have a registered trademark on "Open Source" and that they "don't get to decide what is or isn't open source." But in practice, many (most?) of us do acknowledge the OSI definition as being the de-facto definition of "Open Source."

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