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chrisseaton

> So where are all the examples on public mailing lists and Usenet of them using this?

Here's one

http://www.xent.com/FoRK-archive/fall96/0269.html

Also - even the USPTO rejected their claim as a trademark.

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One. The same one you already posted. Where are the thousands of examples of this common usage?

Rejected after they'd made the term popular.

How many examples do you need to prove that something existed? Isn't one enough? When you see a fossil of a dinosaur skeleton in a museum do you say 'well hang on are there any more or just one?'

And it was rejected because it was a simple descriptive term. You can't take ownership of a simple descriptive term.

Bottom line facts are: OSDI don't own it - that's a fact - and they didn't use it first - that's a fact.

I didn't claim it didn't exist so your strawman is irrelevant. If there was only a single dinosaur skeleton in existence I certainly wouldn't be claiming they were common animals.

The fact is it was barely used until the OSI introduced it as a term at which point it became popular. You seem to have a personal problem with that.

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