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ESR steps down from OSI
Hope Thelps writes "According to an article on news.com.com, Eric Raymond is stepping down from his role as president of the OSI. His replacement will be our very own Russ Nelson. "
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The submissions mentioned Russ's Slashdot Page, but a lot more info about him can be found at his home page and/or his company Crynwr.
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Fear not, knowledgeable people, and learn quite how full of shit ESR is.
ESR didn't step down, according to the article, he stepped aside.
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If you entity don't set financial, technical or legal standards, it's probably not really needed.
Open Source Initiative does in fact set legal standards. It maintains a definition of what constitutes an open source license and approves licenses for use with its OSI CERTIFIED branding program.
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IIRC, OSI was not granted a trademark on the phrase "open source", so anyone can use it for nearly anything.
No, not the OSI, but another organization founded by Bruce Perens, the SPI (Software in the Public Interest). Tradmark #75439502.
Then there was a little scuffle where the OSI wanted the trademark from the SPI, and I think it ended up being abandoned, and now the OSI has their 'certification mark' instead.
But in any case, Perens was the guy who co-founded the OSI and coined the term, and at the very least he has a certain moral right to it.
Fidel Castro did not get rid of Che. Che was given several high ranking posts in the government but he chose to leave in order to fight for other oppressed people.
Poor example.
Well, it says here:
"I am the person who first announced "Open Source" to the world, in an article carried on Slashdot and elsewhere."
He also trademarked the thing, wrote the OSI definition, and cofounded the OSI. I don't see why he couldn't or wouldn't be allowed to make that claim.
If this kind of tantrum junkie is the best spokesperson the open source movement can find, they're really in trouble!
You are a bright one aren't you?
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Just like every other revolution. There has never been a revolution of the powerless masses and there probably never will be. I looked up the definition of revolution and it doesn't say anything about people rising up. It just says, "The overthrow of one government and its replacement with another."
No they didn't and yes the phrase existed before the OSI was founded and it was not limited to software.
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It also has a large amount of use relating to the access of Intellegence information. The OSI simply used a common term relating to source code that is accessable, they did not coin the term and in no way have any way to justify any claims regarding ownership or oversight of it, it is simply a discriptive phrase.
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We have always been at war with Eurasia!
OK, but you're hardly making the case for sensible gun owners (of which I know many) by flipping out over a quick joke.
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Is that a fault of Russians or a "dreamer" like Marx? I think a dictatoral state is the end result of any system that advocates "from each according his ability, to each according to his needs." You need a ruling class to start handing out rations as no one has a right to private property.
... the communal communes of Spain in the early 20th century. The country as a whole was a dual system, half capitalist, half communist. The local communists were very democratic and outcompeted their capitalist competitors (Note: communism != centrally planned).
Not any more than you need a ruling class for capitalism to work (someone owns the land, someone works for someone else).
There has been at least one working communist system that was inherently democratic
Both Washington and Moscow had strong interest in undermining this particular example of communism. Washington because it showed communism could outcompete capitalism under the right circumstances (small, democratic, self-organized communes and cooperatives trading with one another) and Moscow because it undermined their argument that communism required authoritarianism to work (this was particularly troublesome as the Spanish democratic variant was working far better than stalinism ever did).
The Spanish government coopted the communists into their system legally, then modified the laws to make them uncompetative and ultimately illegal. Kind of like what is happening to the internet vis-a-vis the expanded copyright laws today.
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Seriously.. If you don't know who Russ is, you probably have never been to a Linux conference, or have never attempted qmail.
Well except that the people supporting the revolution where only 1/5th the population at the start. Also note that local leadership had no real power. They most certainly weren't "established" in terms of holding the reins of power. It was all about "taxation without representation", if you'll recall highschool history class. In terms of "autonomy, not change", then why was it called The Great Experiment? Hint: it was a *radical* departure.
According to the front page of the OSI website: (emphasis theirs)
The Open Source Initiative started the open source movement and defines the term "open source". That is a development methodology aimed chiefly at businesses. I fail to see how my wording or RMS' views of the open source philosophy fail to describe what's going on.
It's also disappointing to see that the new head of the OSI takes so quickly to name-calling and casting aspersions.
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The thing is, to end programmers, the FSF has actually given us stuff. I think that was the grandparent's point. We don't really give a crap whether "Open Source" is a popular name or not.
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