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Re: [dvd-discuss] Text of Sen. Hollings' revised SSSCA, now called the CBDTPA
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- Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] Text of Sen. Hollings' revised SSSCA, now called the CBDTPA
- From: "James S. Tyre" <jstyre(at)jstyre.com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 10:26:09 -0800
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At 01:03 PM 3/22/2002 -0500, Jeremy Erwin wrote:
>Isn't "open source" trademarked by the OSI? Any "open source"
>implementation would have to be approved by the Open Source Initiative.
It appears to be a dead mark, but there are about ten live marks which
include "open source." Perhaps the most interesting is the one owned by VA
Software, formerly VA Linux, by virtue of acquiring Andover.net, which,
under the aegis of Open Source Development Network (r), has a little
something to do with /. and other equally obscure sites.
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