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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! —…

Since there has been some confusion as of late, I’ve posted an updated Code of Conduct. Hopefully this (along with planned charter revisions) will improve our overall mailing list climate.

This morning the Give One Get One program went live, and after reading the terms and conditions of the program, I was ready for not one, but two laptops. Why two? You can read my ( parent . thesis ) blog to find out. (And you should, after reading this one.) I have seen some…

In my professoinal capacity, I spend most of my time talking with public and private sector executives about how they can use open source software to save millions (potentially billions) of dollars while replacing brittle and broken proprietary software with code that actually works. And I talk about how the values of the open source…

Last night I received a google alert about a new blog posting with a most misleading title. The title read “OSI Approves Microsoft’s ‘Shared Software’ Licenses”. This half-truth was paired with another half-truth: that I was President of the Portland-based Open Source Initiative. (The OSI is incorporated in California.) This morning, I received another google…