Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

OSI Launches Certification Program With Logo

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the four-years-is-a-long-time dept.

Lao-Tzu writes "The Open Source Initiative has launched an OSI certification program. The OSI has trademarked a logo looking like a keyhole for their use as a graphical certification mark. Python.org is the first website to carry the new OSI logo." One might ask what took so long.

2 of 180 comments (clear)

  1. Wow, this will help by l33t+j03 · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    This is just what OSS needed to tip the scales in its favor. You people will destroy Microsoft now!

    A logo. Wow. You all kick ass.

    --

    Cunning linguists

    1. Re:Wow, this will help by l33t+j03 · · Score: 0, Flamebait
      Putting an OSI certification logo on your software will be like putting a Mr. Yuck sticker on a bottle of Pepsi.

      Or 'Firestone' on the side of your tire.

      Or 'Enron' on your accounting firm's literature.

      Or 'Made in a Sweatshop' on the side of your shoe.

      Hint: The logo recognition thing only works if your product isn't a piece of shit.

      --

      Cunning linguists