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 -- Sometimes they [people] care too much: pretty printers [and syntax highligh- ting, d.A.] mechanically produce pretty output that accentuates irrelevant detail in the program, which is as sensible as putting all the prepositions in English text in bold font. -- Rob Pike in "Notes on Programming in C" _______________________________________________ okfn-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.okfn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss
