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Freakonomics Radio had Dr. Atul Gawande on a year ago (April 2018) and discussed medical checklists among other things. http://freakonomics.com/podcast/atul-gawande/

Where in the article does the OSI mention or hint at anything about threat of law? The OSI does have the legal right to tell you what they think Open Source is. You have the legal …

I wasn't referring to legality, only replying to the idea that "open" and "source" are "just two words". For an example closer to the subject at hand, the Free Software Foundation …

It's pretty well known who coined open source and why. It's also known shortly thereafter OSI started protecting the definition. https://opensource.com/article/18/2/coining-term-op…

Bourbon is just a just a name. Champagne is just a region. But whiskeys and wines have to fit narrow qualifications to be Champagne sparkling wine, or Bourbon whiskey. You can, of …

> So, why should the Open Source community be so damned forgiving when we're surrounded by entities who'd eat every last one of us for lunch if we so much as accidentally used a co…

> I thought it was primarily to remove the implicit assumption that free software was necessarily non-commercial. I've heard Bruce Perens talk about it a few times, and even on the…

Wasn't open source coined as a way to remove ideals from the discussion? This is why (as annoying as it gets sometimes) it's important to make the distinction between open source a…

It is very cool to see TechCrunch give some publicity to a product and project like this. A few thoughts though. When I buy products like this, it's not to "stick it to the man". I…

For the lazy and/or mobile... "Lenovo, Asus, Dell, and HP. Acer tied Apple for fifth place."

No. The rift is not over the license itself. From the mail archive Benno states... > > As you know, I will not assign my copyright to the FSF, nor to > > anyone else. All the code …