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I just read an excellent summary of the top 10 SE Linux stories of 2007, and it reminds me that I owe the world a blog posting about the amazing vision and accomplishments of the SE Linux project.

We’ve gotten a number of licenses submissions over the years, which attempt to be “succinter than thou”. I guess that people feel that even a license as simple as the BSD license is too complicated. Examples include the Fair License (which we approved), or the Æsthetic Permissive License (currently under consideration), or the Beer-Ware license…

Yesterday afternoon, Red Hat, Inc. announced that James Whitehurst would be taking over for Matthew Szulik as chief executive. This is important open source news because Red Hat is by far the largest company practicing open source as its primary business. (Disclaimer: I am a Red Hat executive.) Already the press has characterized Jim as…

Most of you know me as President of the Open Source Initiative, but I am also Chair of the Fundraising Committee. Over the years we have raised monies large and small from companies large and small, public and private, and we have had great participation from individual donors as well. In fact, this year was…

Dear OSI Community, As part of our ongoing effort to improve transparency and encourage participation, the Open Source Initiative is announcing a major restructuring of our public mailing lists, effective immediately. Moving forward, OSI’s public discussions of Open Source issues will be concentrated on three major mailing lists: 1. License-Review This new, tightly-focused list is…

Hi everyone, As promised, we’ve dramatically expanded and rechartered the OSI mailing lists. In particular, we have split license review and general OSI issue discussions out from “license-discuss” list, to allow the latter to focus on maintaining the new Licensing FAQ. We continue to work on several other process and website improvements. Stay tuned! —…