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New 'Open Source Initiative' Site Announces Anniversary Celebrations and Outreach Programs (opensource.net)
Coining the term "Open Source" was only the beginning. "That same month, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) was founded as a general educational and advocacy organization to raise awareness and adoption for the superiority of an open development process." That's the word from their newly-re-designed site OpenSource.net, which is now commemorating the 20th anniversary of the open source movement with an interactive timeline of milestones -- and announcements about much more.
- "Celebrations will be held worldwide, in conjunction with the leading open source conferences, as well as standalone community-led events... Our anniversary website will support volunteer organizers to host events in their own cities. The OSI will provide small grants to these community-led events and promote them to the broader community." (There are already several t-shirt designs...)
- A "Share Your Story" section explains that "As part of our mission, we want to promote the success stories of companies like yours that are investing in open source software and community in order to increase adoption and development even more broadly... We'll be sharing your stories with the community throughout the 2018 celebration. We'll also connect you with media outlets to share your story and participate in interviews."
- And going forward, OpenSource.Net "will serve both as a community of practice and a mentorship program. The goal is to further promote adoption of open source software over the next twenty years as issues shift from open source's viability/value to issues around implementation and authentic participation. OpenSource.Net connects those that "get it" and "did it" with a global network of highly qualified peers across industries. Your experiences as an exemplar in the community will help others address common (or unique) issue.
The anniversary is also being celebrated at this year's FOSDEM conference in Brussels, Belgium. "When it was inaugurated in 2000, FOSDEM, standing for Free and Open Source Developer's European Meeting, started out as OSDEM," remembers the site i-Programmer.
"But the F was added before its second event in 2002 in response to a request from Richard Stallman."
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"The Open Source Initiative chose the term "open source," in founding member Michael Tiemann's words, to "dump the moralizing and confrontational attitude that had been associated with 'free software'" and instead promote open source ideas on "pragmatic, business-case grounds." (Wikipedia).
And that's IMO the weakest point of the OSI. It looks like an industry consortium. With premum sponsors the likes of Microsoft, Facebook and Google. While I agree with their stated goals. I don't trust them to navigate their conflicts of interest very well.
If you're not the sort of twat who says "going forward" a lot in the office (despite there being better options, such as "in future" or just...nothing) then why say it here?
Care to explain? Have better alternatives?
That same month, the Open Source Initiative (OSI) was founded as a general educational and advocacy organization to raise awareness and adoption for the superiority of an open development process.
The ability to read the source code does not guarantee the freedom to use or develop it. For instance, Apple's OsX is based on open source software, yet it is proprietary.
The only way to guarantee that the source code will remain available in perpetuity is to apply the GPL license to it.
The beginning of open source is when people released the source code openly, back in the 70's and 80's. Not a branding name based on that attribute.
"Self driving cars" didn't start from when a journalist called them "self driving", it started from when cars were first designed to drive themselves.
Here is a new initiative:
Open Source must reclaim the net.
Produce a CD with just a minimum of software that will let me surf untraceable, no surveilling,ultimate privacy.The music CD shelves can be restocked with CDs of a different kind.
:It was also the time that OSI seized the day!
And the 20th anniversary was marked not just by celebration the world over.
The Open Group was founded in 1988. I heard and used the term Open Source Software in the 1980s at university. So it goes back further than that.
Kids, these days, doing things we used to do, they think are new...
To see what transpired from his efforts.
Outreach... AKA paying women to do stuff that men are expected to do for free.
Because... reasons... diversity... inclusion... of some such shit.
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The OSI website also used to call mentioning software freedom "ideological tub-thumping". Hardly the kind of language one would use if one wants to seek a respectful difference with the older free software movement (which predates the OSI by over a decade), and there's also the suggestion about open source being "pragmatic" as if free software wasn't pragmatic. If software freedom wasn't pragmatic there would be no need for a proprietor-friendly reaction to challenge it and push for advocating for almost the same software minus the software freedom.
Instead, cozying up to proprietors puts the OSI in a jam when they send out their speakers to make nice with free software activists because the speakers have to avoid explaining away the points the GNU Project brings up far more insightfully in its two main essays (older essay, newer essay) on the topic.
The name "open source" is apparently used by proprietors to put a shine on endorsing proprietary software. Take the recent /. post about "Microsoft Releases Skype As a Snap For Linux" which points us to an article that says "[Microsoft] has actually transformed into an open source champion" while it endorses running software that could not qualify as open source (and studiously avoids any language that might bring software freedom to mind). This kind of conflict comes up from time to time and is a direct result of the coziness with proprietors you refer to; I recall some time ago reading another /. story about an essay by Red Hat lawyer Mark Webbink which tried to explain copyleft without using the word "copyleft" or drawing attention to anything to do with software freedom despite that copyleft is a strategy for preserving the freedoms of free software in derivative works (a strategy for preserving an ethical way to treat people with regard to computers). FOSDEM 2018 just ended and in a talk on the Open Source Initiative we're reminded of a quote from Linus Torvalds, "In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.". Torvalds never liked software freedom but found the GPLv2 to be a handy license to use for his published projects such as the Linux kernel and Git. This quote strikes me as an indicator of the same problem: when the phrase "open source" has been lumped in with people who don't adopt that development methodology, and one seeks to place business activity above other social needs (such as controlling one's own computer), one needs a new term ("real open source") to describe a desired distinction.
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