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[News] [OSS] Abuse of the Term "Open Source" Leads to OSI 'Housecleaning'

  • Subject: [News] [OSS] Abuse of the Term "Open Source" Leads to OSI 'Housecleaning'
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 14:34:24 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Will The Real Open Source CRM Please Stand Up?

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| Dana Blankenhorn's story How far can open source CRM get? has finally
| pushed me to respond to the many people who have asked "When is the 
| OSI going to stand up to companies who are flagrantly abusing the term 
| 'open source'?" The answer is: starting today.
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http://opensource.org/node/163

More here:

http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/06/when_is_open_so.html


Related:

Using open source as a marketing ploy

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| This is typical trend riding fluff. If you go the Aras website you
| read about "Microsoft Enterprise Open Source Solutions", which is
| comical in and of itself.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/01/more_open_sourc.html

Ironically, the guy who wrote this was himself named and shamed for corrupting
the term.

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