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Why We Still Need OSI

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the both-sides-of-the-debate dept.

ChiefMonkeyGrinder writes "In response to a comment on yesterday's blog, Simon Phipps writes about the old rivalry between the Free Software Foundation and the Open Source Initiative (OSI). 'I have been (and in plenty of ways still am) a critic of OSI, as well as a firm supporter and advocate of the FSF. I believe OSI should be a member organisation with a representative leadership. ... But the OSI still plays a very important and relevant role in the world of software freedom.' For instance: Licence approvals have become a much more onerous process, with the emphasis on avoiding creation of new licences, updating old or flawed ones, and encouraging the retirement of redundant ones. It would be great to see the stewards of some of the (in retrospect) incorrectly approved licences ask for their retirement."

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  1. FTFS: by Pojut · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Licence approvals have become a much more onerous process

    Apparently, so have spell checkers.

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    Living With a Nerd
  2. Re:So tell me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    and Eric S. Raymond managed to famously become a temporary Internet paper millionaire before his big mouth made him a pariah to the movement

    You're not still holding that whole "white supremacy" thing against dear Eric, are you?

  3. Re:OSI by ClosedSource · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Right. In contrast to the known humility of GNU, FSF and RMS.