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  • Why OSI? Featured sponsor, Open Weaver

    Why OSI? Featured sponsor, Open Weaver

    We asked Open Weaver to share the organization’s intrinsic ties to Open Source, its reasons for supporting the Open Source Initiative, and its hopes for the Open Source movement.

  • OSI Sponsor: Why OSI, Slim.AI

    OSI Sponsor: Why OSI, Slim.AI

    This week, we’re pleased to spotlight another OSI sponsor, Slim.AI, and learn why Open Source is important to their organization.

  • About The Standards Question In The OpenUK Survey

    About The Standards Question In The OpenUK Survey

    There is a question about “standards” in the OpenUK survey this time around. Why is it there? The UK is an important contributor to global standards. Many international standards were initiated in the UK, and UK experts are significant contributors in many standards developing organizations (SDOs). But how strong is the connection to Open Source?…

  • OpenLogic by Perforce: Why we support OSI

    OpenLogic by Perforce: Why we support OSI

    This week, we’re pleased to spotlight OSI sponsor, OpenLogic by Perforce, and learn why open source is important to their organization. OpenLogic by Perforce offers technical support and services for over 450 open source packages through guaranteed service level agreements (SLAs), and provides direct access to highly experienced Enterprise Architects, professional services, and training. We asked…

  • OSI to the European Commission: make space for patent-free standards too

    OSI to the European Commission: make space for patent-free standards too

    One of the biggest hidden challenges facing the software and technology world is the evolving conflict between old electronics vendors and the new software-defined universe. It’s arising because of patents embedded within international standards. We think it needs fixing because it especially affects, and may be harmful to, Open Source. It may come as a…

  • Memray project showcases why Bloomberg is an ‘open source first’ company

    Memray project showcases why Bloomberg is an ‘open source first’ company

    What might not be as well-known are Bloomberg’s contributions to open source software, both as a driver for its own technology and application infrastructure, as well as developing enterprise-scale tools for the broader open source community.

  • Exploring the future of Open Source

    As the steward of the Open Source Definition, the OSI needs to understand all the challenges it’s facing. The introduction of new technologies can challenge open source. Like when the “software-as-a-service” model started emerging and that required reviewing the GNU GPL, creating the AGPL. Now we believe that the emergence of Artificial Intelligence is posing…

  • Join upcoming hackathon “Get plugged into education!” with Moodle

    Join upcoming hackathon “Get plugged into education!” with Moodle

    ‘Get plugged into education!’ with Moodle will be the first project in a series of hackathons part of a joint initiative launched by The United Nations Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT) and the Directorate-General for Informatics of European Commission (DG DIGIT).

  • Publicplan: Why we support the OSI

    Publicplan: Why we support the OSI

    Since its founding, publicplan has been committed to the concept of open source software. For us, there is no greater good than free information.

  • GNOME patent troll stripped of patent rights

    GNOME patent troll stripped of patent rights

    A recent decision at the US patent office may well give patent trolls cause to steer clear of open source projects – even more than the fierce resistance the community impressively funded and mounted in the GNOME case.

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