Re: open-source vs. open source

Subject: Re: open-source vs. open source
From: Janice Gelb <Janice -dot- Gelb -at- Sun -dot- COM>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 07:58:40 +1100

Janet Swisher wrote:
>
> One of the purposes of hyphenating compounds is to avoid ambiguity, as
> in "open door policy" or "fast sailing ship". Maybe it's just me, but
> I don't see potential ambiguity in the phrases above involving "open
> source".
>

It's not just you :-> Our Editorial Forum discussed
this and decided that "open source" did not need to
be hyphenated when used as a modifier because its
typical usage was not ambiguous.

-- Janice

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References:
RE: open-source vs. open source: From: Michael West
Re: open-source vs. open source: From: Janet Swisher

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