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Yes they do. They applied for a trademark and were unfairly denied one. Why does Apple get a trademark on Apple?

Trademark or no, enough people were on-board with the OSI and OSD at the time it became a well known and established term that we have a claim to it.

touch .well-known/open-source

Your argument is that they own it despite courts denying it?

Yes - "Trademark or no"

Also the institution has proven to be stronger than one individual.

https://www.theregister.com/2020/01/03/osi_cofounder_resigns...?

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