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add one more reference to to Tim O’Reilly's statements about InnerSource
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We favor the spelling **InnerSource**, for the following reasons:
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1. That’s the way Tim O’Reilly [spelled it in 2000][opengl_1200] (he was into Perl and camel-case was a thing).
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1. That’s the way Tim O’Reilly [spelled it in 2000][opengl_1200] (he was into Perl and camel-case was a thing). Also see the [Foreword of the Adopting InnerSource book](foreword_AdoptingInnerSource) for more of Tim O’Reilly's own words on the topic.
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2. If you set up side-by-side Google searches for “Inner Source” and “InnerSource” you will find that you get more hits on the former term, by only 1% of them have anything to do with what we call InnerSource. The latter term will be 100% cogent to your inquiry.
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3. The OSI was [denied trademark on the term “open source”][no-open-source-trademark] because it was made up of two common and unrelated terms. “InnerSource” on the other hand is a new word.
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“We’re InnerSourcing that repo”
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[opengl_1200]: https://web.archive.org/web/20180411080939/http://archive.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/ask_tim/2000/opengl_1200.html
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[foreword_AdoptingInnerSource]: https://innersourcecommons.org/assets/files/AdoptingInnerSource.pdf
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[no-open-source-trademark]: https://opensource.org/pressreleases/certified-open-source.php

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