cg at home.cdegroot.com (Cees de Groot) is claimed by the authorities to have written:

> Alan Kay <Alan.Kay at squeakland.org> said:
> >And while you are at it, explain to them that trademarking "Open 
> >Source", if they reallly have done something so dumb, is at least a 
> >moral violation of everything that "open source" is about.
> >
> I said:
> >>you cannot call it Open Source (AFAIK, that's a trademark) [...]
Given the absurd nature of much of the legal environment, trademarking,
registering or indeed patenting can sometimes be the only effective way
to keep something free. It prevents 'blackhats' from grabbing it and
twisting it around. Imagine if M$ had trademarked Opensource or Linux!

tim
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