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OSI doesn't own the term "open source" [0] [1]

[0]: https://writing.kemitchell.com/2019/05/05/Rely-on-OSI.html

[1]: https://writing.kemitchell.com/2021/03/18/You-Can-Still-Use-...

Who cares about the trademark? The tech community has a meaning for the term. Everyone has understood what it meant for decades. Why would you try to deliberately take away the meaning?

Language is useful.

Yes they do. They applied for a trademark and were unfairly denied one. Why does Apple get a trademark on Apple?

Trademark or no, enough people were on-board with the OSI and OSD at the time it became a well known and established term that we have a claim to it.

touch .well-known/open-source

Your argument is that they own it despite courts denying it?

Yes - "Trademark or no"

Also the institution has proven to be stronger than one individual.

https://www.theregister.com/2020/01/03/osi_cofounder_resigns...?

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