[plug] [link] Open Source win in Mass. US

[James Devenish]

In message <3F94A5EA.3000504 at postnewspapers.com.au>
on Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 11:20:10AM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> >>So ... open standards required, yes. Open source allowed, yes. Open 
> >>source required - no.
[...]
> No - it's not only reasonable, but a very good idea. That wasn't what I 
> was talking about, either. Perhaps I should have said "using the term 
> open source as is defined by http://opensource.org/, ...." but I think 
> that was pretty obvious.

You are probably right: the phrase "open source" now means OSI/FSF
style. That is, the jargon/slang has taken over the previous usage. I
guess it's like the use of "air conditioning" to mean "refrigerated
*cooling*" rather than the more general "conditioning of air". It
happens, and I'll have to live with it, but it seems a shame.


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