Author Archives: OSI Policy Team

CNN just reported that NASA is refusing to disclose air safety data. The topic paragraph summarizes the facts of the report: Anxious to avoid upsetting air travelers, NASA is withholding…

If Al Gore can win the Nobel Peace Prize for bringing the findings of the scientific community to the political forefront, perhaps Richard Stallman should be next in line for…

I am the son of an anchorman. I am a First Amendment guy. In a statement after Diana’s death, I said the only thing worse than out-of-control photographers with no…

During this morning’s Weekend Edition Saturday, NPR’s Scott Simon reflected on the progress of the One Laptop Per Child XO project, pointing to the salient features of a laptop whose…

Hello all you Open Source fans out there! Some of you have quite rightly suggested enhancements to the overall services OSI offers the Open Source community. We’ve decided to do…

Copied the inbound channel / mailing list to the OSI board: On 9/28/07, Luis Ibanez wrote: OSI Board: As developers of Open Source software, at Kitware we are very excited…

According to an article published in Enterprise Open Source Magazine, CIOs interviewed by Forrester Research rank freedom more important than price or cost when considering open source software.

As SCO’s attack against Linux collapses, with Judge Dale Kimball’s ruling on the Novell copyrights making it plainer than ever that the lawsuit was fraudulent from the word go, we’re…

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” – Albert Einstein Last week I flew to Las Vegas to talk on…

QNX is claiming that effective today, they will “open” the “source” code to its QNX embedded product.

RMS is leading people off on his own path again. He’s saying that if people want to keep their freedom they better not follow Torvalds. While it’s great that RMS doesn’t compromise his principles, the principle that he isn’t compromising isn’t necessary. RMS constantly tells us that it is the word “Free” which is important. This says to me that he feels that the experience of freedom — that actual freedom — is not important. Only the name is important, not the thing.