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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. One thing I've always wanted to see from the OSI by Nailer · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Is the following slogan:

    Open Source built the Internet

    Because it did. All major server side software on the internet (major meaning leads its market), an Open Source application (as, of course, defined by the Open Source Definition) leads.
    • Web Servers - Apache
    • Proxy Servers - Squid
    • Email Servers - Sendmail
    • DNS - BIND9
    • FTP - WuFTPd
    • Even OpenSSH is more prominent than the proprietary alternatives (though from an end user point of view that's not really much of an argument).
    Most people have absolutely no idea this is the case. They don't realize that every time they connect to the internet they're relying on the root nameservers, all of which use Open Source software on Unix, to do their jobs. And those Open Source systems are rising to the challenge. There are people out there - including many journalist (Adam Turner from The Age is a good example if you live in Australia) who literally think proprietary Microsoft software is fundamenttal to the operation of the internet - even more so than OSS applications.