OSI Board Members, Officers and Committee Chairs for 2011-2012
In a special board meeting convened for board elections on March 16 2011, the OSI board elected three new illustrious members of the open source community – Jim Jagielski, Karl…
Press Releases
OSI Board reponds to FCO Questionaire concerning CPTN Transaction
Towards the end of March, we received a message from the German Bundeskartellamt (Federal Cartel Office or FCO) advising us that the CPTN transaction had been re-notified to them. That…
OSI Commends the US Department of Justice
According to filings made by Novell [On] February 2, 2011, each of [CPTN Holdings] and Novell received a Second Request from the DOJ regarding the sale of certain identified patents…
OSI asks German Federal Cartel Office and US Department of Justice to investigate CPTN transaction (update 2)
January 19, 2011 (update 2) – The Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice has acknowledged receipt of the following correspondence (with attachment): I am writing to you this…
OSI Committee Chairs Election for 2010-2011
Earlier this month, the OSI board held elections for the organization’s committees. Board members interested in working on OSI initiatives such as membership, education, policy and economic development, outreach submitted…
Open Source Education: OSI co-organizing POSSE in Silicon Valley from July 6-10, 2010
Open Source Software has come a long way in the last decade. It has gone from being bleeding edge to becoming mainstream. Every aspect of computing, from the operating system…
Welcoming OSI’s new board members
The OSI board elections were held earlier this month and the board voted in a new slate of directors starting April 1st, 2010. I would like to welcome our three…
OSI Opposes Barriers To Open Source Software For Television
The Open Source Initiative Board has added OSI to the list of organizations asking that the BBC not be allowed to add digital restriction measures to digital broadcasts in the…
The OSI Categorically Rejects IIPA’s special pleadings against Open Source
Introduction Moore’s Law, Disk Law, and Fiber Law have created an economic engine for growth, promising exponentially improving computing, storage, and networking performance for the foreseeable future. And yet according…
Open Source Whitepaper updated for 2010
When I was invited to speak at the STS Forum in Kyoto in 2006, I thought it would be a good idea to write an extremely concise white paper-3 pages…
OSI and White House agree on open source benefits, platforms
By now you may have read that www.whitehouse.gov is now running Drupal, the open source content management system. So, too, does the OSI itself. So first I’d like to say…
2009 OSI Board Elections held in April
The OSI board’s annual nominations and elections were held on April 1, 2009.
Highlights of this process included:
1. New Board Membership:
The board seat vacated by Mr. Bruno Souza was filled by Mr. Andrew Oliver, who has been a board observer for the last year.
2. Amendment to OSI’s By-laws: