Commentary: Open Source is not a verb

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Nov 4, 2006 2:05 PM EDT
NewsForge; By Bill Weinberg
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I am a linguist by training. Long before I delved into free software and was snagged by the quagmire of marketing, I pondered the marvels of morphology, the grimness of grammar and the splendor of semantics. It is only natural then that my wrangling criticism of industry-speak, in both technical and literary modes, is informed by ingrained linguistic sensibilities, descriptive and proscriptive. Given my background, I find it vexing when open source is used as a verb.

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