Re: Open Software Service Definition

Dave Crossland dixit:

>While I am no fan of the OSI, I think it is fair to say that they are
>very influential and most people refer to FOSS as OS.

Sure, but even the OSI themselves say that being OSI approved is only
a subclass of being OSD compliant Open Source (tm) software. They
admit to willingly not approve Open Source (tm) licences.

//mirabilos
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