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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. OSI Logo history by Real+World+Stuff · · Score: 5, Informative

    The OSI logo contest information might clear this up. It was conceived by ESR with some pretty specific rules. There were a wide variety of submissions. There was a diverse interpretation of what OS was to represent. The selected image was provided by "Hilmar". Additionally, here is the index of all the submissions.here

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  2. The OSI Logo, written in UCB Logo. by locoluis · · Score: 4, Informative
    MAKE "PI 4 * RADARCTAN 1
    MAKE "ARADIUS 200
    MAKE "BRADIUS 100
    MAKE "ASTEP :ARADIUS * :PI / 180
    MAKE "BSTEP :BRADIUS * :PI / 180
    CS
    PU
    LT 90
    REPEAT 20 [ BK :ASTEP LT 2 ]
    MAKE "CURPOS POS
    SETPC 2
    PD
    REPEAT 140 [ BK :ASTEP LT 2 ]
    RT 90
    FD (:ARADIUS-:BRADIUS)/2
    LT 90
    REPEAT 140 [ FD :BSTEP RT 2 ]
    SETPOS :CURPOS
    PU
    HT
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