Have They Considered, Like, Googling "Open Source"?

Julian Sanchez | November 18, 2005

Via The Agitator comes an amusing observation about the newly launched Pajamas Media/Open Source Media/OSM blogger collective over at The Talent Show. A pretty standard definition of open source in the software context characterizes it as "software whose source code is published and made available to the public, enabling anyone to copy, modify and redistribute the source code without paying royalties or fees." And here's OSM's policy:

You may not reproduce, distribute, copy, publish, enter into any database, display, modify, create derivative works, transmit, or in any way exploit any part of this site. The only exceptions to this are that you may download material from Our Site for your own personal use, provided such download is limited to making one machine readable copy and/or one print copy that limited to occasional articles of personal interest only. No other use of the content of Our Site is permitted. Please contact our Sales Department if you wish to have rights other than those stated above.

Not an unreasonable policy—but if that's how you're gonna roll, "Open Source Media" is about as apt a moniker as "Ministry of Love."