Alexandre Benson Smith wrote:

>
> Paul Beach wrote:
> >> It's a trivial knockoff of the MPL. It isn't approved because nobody
> >> wanted to spend the money to get it approved.
> >>
> >
> > Or go through the pointless exercise in wasting valuable time.
> >
> > Paul
> >
>
> The funny thing about it is that today I read a news on slashdot about
> companies using the therm "Open Source" and not using any OSI approved
> licenses.
> the Slashdot news are here:
> http://slashdot.org/articles/07/06/21/1146259.shtml
> <http://slashdot.org/articles/07/06/21/1146259.shtml>
>
> and the the Michael Tiemann's blog post are here
> http://www.opensource.org/node/163 <http://www.opensource.org/node/163>
>
> I think it is a "bit" radical approach. To me "Open Source" is a therm
> that could be used for a lot of different and not OSI approved licenses,
> instead of a "Trade Mark" that could be only used with the OSI blessing,
> from what I can see in Tiemann's point of view Firebird is not "Open
> Source" software not because the FB used License does not follow OSI
> requirements (since it is MPL) but because it is not OSI approved once
> nobody spend the time/money to make it approved. That's a pity IMHO.
> Looks like to me that OSI are not happy enough to try to explain the
> difference between "Free Software" from "Open Source Software".
>
> see you !
>
> --
> Alexandre Benson Smith
> Development
> THOR Software e Comercial Ltda
> Santo Andre - Sao Paulo - Brazil
> www.thorsoftware.com.br
>

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Open source is open source no one can copyrigth of the open source and
how it is implemented.
OSI is one form of open source comercial open source like MS license is
open source as well.
OSI is trying its best to copyright open source but has not the right to
do it the same as microsoft has no right
to copyright it. If i like to open source my program under my terms I
need no OSI or Microsoft to tell me how
I can do it the correct way.

I use OSI and Microsoft as the two opposites of the same coin here I do
not like one over the other.

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