Mr. O'Reilly, In your article in the April 1999 issue of _Communications of the ACM_ titled "Lessons from Open-Source [sic] Software Development", I believe that you state an incorrect fact. In the first sentence of the second paragraph you state, "Officially, open source (which is a trademark of the Open Source Initiative - see www.opensource.org)..."
Searching the US Patent and Trademark Office database (available at http://www.uspto.gov/tmdb/) reveals that the term "Open Source" is a certification mark of Software in the Public Interest (SPI). This is also the assertion on their web site at http://www.spi-inc.org/trademarks/. SPI indicates, however, that the trademark is managed by Eric Raymond, who happens to be the founder of the Open Source Initive. OSI does not own the trademark. Please make a note of the error and have it corrected. Thank you. -- Chris Ingram [EMAIL PROTECTED]
