Home

Page created on January 12, 2022 | Last modified on January 12, 2022

Recent Posts

View All

  • FSF Leadership Change

    A change of leadership at the Free Software Foundation provides the OSI Board an opportunity to thank the outgoing Executive Director for his work promoting software freedom and to welcome the incoming executive director. I got a call on Friday evening from Peter Brown, the Executive Director of the Free Software Foundation (FSF). It’s been…

  • 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 and patent applications to CPTN contemplated by the Patent Purchase Agreement. The Second Requests have the effect of extending the waiting period under the HSR…

  • Happy Birthday Wikipedia!

    Probably the greatest benefit of open source software is the liberty it creates to unleash innovation and the unexpected. By giving everyone four key liberties – to use the software for any purpose, to study it, to modify it and to pass it to others – software under OSI-approved licenses can be used in any…

  • 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 morning in my capacity as President of the Open Source Initiative, a US 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Last month the OSI filed a statement with the…

  • The Concrete Benefits of Open Source Software

    Following up on an earlier blog posting, Indian Open Standards Policy Finalized, I read an article published in the The Hindu, one of India’s leading newspapers, about the concrete benefits of this policy. It also provides a very meaningful template for open source advocates to see how well an argument can be made with the…

  • Indian Open Standards Policy Finalized

    Venkatesh Hariharan reports: After three years of continuous running battles, India’s Department of Information Technology has finalized the national policy on Open Standards. Over the last three years, we worked with our friends in government, academic, civil society and the media to push the Indian government in favor of a policy that mandates a single,…

MOST VIEWED STORIES

RECENT COMMENTS

CATEGORIES