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We All Want a Pony!

Alan MacCormack published a new paper entitled A Developer Bill of Rights: What Open Source Developers Want in a Software...

May 24, 2007 Post
OSI Board Meeting Minutes, March 12, 2008

Quorum reached and meeting called to order at 8:11am PDT Expected Attendees: Mr. Michael Tiemann, President Ms. Danese Cooper, Secretary...

April 2, 2008 Meeting Minutes
Fair trade coffee & Open source Java

When Starbucks grew from regional powerhouse to cultural phenomenon, there was one small problem: the coffee they sold did not...

June 20, 2008 Post
CAVO Promotes Open Source Voting in Documentary and Legislation

The California Association of Voting Officials (CAVO), and OSI Affiliate Member, is working on several fronts to promote the adoption...

March 20, 2018 Post
Everything happens for a reason

This week I'm attending OSCON 2008, where the OSI is celebrating its 10th anniversary as an organization, but that's only...

July 23, 2008 Post
BSD+Patent

Note: This license is designed to provide: a) a simple permissive license; b) that is compatible with the GNU General...

May 18, 2017 License
Don’t kill your television–study it!

I just learned about a link that's apparently been live for a while, but it's new to me: http://sony.com/linux. Following...

November 3, 2008 Post
Court affirms it’s false advertising to claim software is Open Source when it’s not

Stop saying Open Source when it's not. The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently affirmed a lower...

March 17, 2022 Post
OSI Approves Microsoft Licenses

I submitted this to slashdot, and put it on my open source blog. In a board meeting held October 10th,...

October 16, 2007 Post
February 2019 License-Discuss Summary

In February, the License-Discuss mailing list discussed how to keep the mailing lists civil and to what degree the business...

March 4, 2019 Post
OSI signs an MOU with the Korea Software Copyright Committee

I visited Seoul last week to represent OSI at an open source conference and to sign a Memorandum of Understanding...

April 22, 2009 Post
A split FTC sides with standards over patents

Andy Updegrove posts yet another insightful analysis on the evolution of standards in the modern technology. He reports that the...

January 25, 2008 Post