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Except they didn't create the MIT license, or BSD, or Apache, or any of the software that built the movement. It's an advocacy group that tries very hard to insert itself into the conversation, and coining a term doesn't give them stewardship or ownership.

I don't imagine the F/OSS ecosystem would be much different today had the OSD/OSI never come to be, unlike say the Apache Foundation or GNU projects.



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