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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.

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  1. Naysaying by daeley · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't mean to be a naysayer, but I'm not sure using Logo in a certification program is such a spiffy idea. How hard it is to move that turtle around, really? ;)

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  2. One might ask what took so long. by SpamJunkie · · Score: 2, Funny

    One might ask what took so long.

    One might ask what it took so long for Slashdot to mention it - it's been on the Python home page for quite a while.

  3. Hmmm by phpdeb · · Score: 2, Funny

    I like the idea, but there doesn't appear to be any way of regulating it. Perhaps, I didn't find that text on the web site.

    It doesn't seem to be any more powerful then saying, "Hey my stuff's Open Source. See look GPL." If your code really isn't GPL then Stallman knocks on your door and gives your titty-twisters until your nipples fall off.

    It's cool to spread the term Open Source and do some branding though, it doesn't matter.

  4. Re:looks more like... by GigsVT · · Score: 2, Funny

    It looks more like a peep sight, like on a old military carbine. Hmmm.

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  5. Keyhole Logo? by sharkey · · Score: 3, Funny

    What happened to the TacoBell logo for the OSI model? Or did they get sued?

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