Why We Still Need OSI

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday May 25, 2010 @02:24AM 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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Re:OSI is getting exactly what they pushed by Lunix+Nutcase · 2010-05-25 03:29 · Score: 3, Funny

If you use the BSD license you end up with OSX
The most popular desktop Unix variant in the world? Oh the horrors!
Re:FTFS: by RyuuzakiTetsuya · 2010-05-25 04:00 · Score: 2, Funny

I'm sceptical of this spelling.

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OSI relevancy by triffid_98 · 2010-05-25 05:43 · Score: 2, Funny

I respectfully disagree. Oscar Goldman's organization is still quite relevant in the fields of hostage negotiation, Bigfoot sightings and Russia oriented plot-lines.