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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. You mean like Slashdot? by hoggy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    One might equally ask why it took you guys a whole month to note the launch of this certification mark...

  2. Re:Wow, this will help by SirSlud · · Score: 5, Insightful

    > A logo. Wow. You all kick ass.

    As Phil Knight said (president of Nike), "People dont want shoes. They want the swoosh."

    To make fun of a logo is wholesomely naive. The prominance of brand economics and logos in our economy is beyond anybody's measure. Heck, logos, official seals predate the 1500s. They give an organization a recognizable and terse symbol with which to endorse certain projects or people.

    Sure, OSI isn't Nike (most notably and thankfully because they arnt looking to levereage the brand horizontally), but there's a reason MS, Dell, etc has a little sticker they put on stuff. Hint: it works.

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