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Why Open Source should be exempt from Standard-Essential Patents

With the European Commission soon to offer the Parliament a bill relating to Standard-Essential Patents (SEPs), it is worth taking time...

March 2, 2023 Post
What’s in a label? ODF vs. OOXML and Open Standards

The OSI adopted a mandate of working on Open Standards two years ago. We put forward a statement on requirements...

March 2, 2008 Post
Data is the key to Open Source AI

Part of the Deep Dive: Data Governance Webinar Series Video transcript Speaker: Stefano Maffulli, Executive Director, Open Source Initiative (OSI)...

October 6, 2025 Page
Covering your bases with IP Indemnity

Part of the Deep Dive: AI Webinar Series When working with LLM providers that don't have their models public (Anthropic,...

October 14, 2023 Page
CodePlex Foundation ramping up

The CodePlex Foundation (http://codeplex.org/; Twitter @codeplex_f), which was started back in September of this year, has been trying to gain...

November 10, 2009 Post
Episode 1: Copyright, Selfie Monkeys and the Hand of God

Did you know that in the United States a copyright can only exist when a work was created by a human...

August 16, 2022 Post
Episode 2: Solving for AI’s black box problem

Over the past 30 years, internet technologies have dramatically reshaped our world. Now we’re standing at the pioneering edge of...

August 23, 2022 Post
Gartner groks CATB; Enderle next?

In 1997, Eric Raymond first presented The Cathedral and the Bazaar at Linux Kongress. I was not there, but I...

April 11, 2008 Post
Episode 3: When hackers take on AI: Sci-fi – or the future?

In 2020 during the height of the pandemic, Connor Leahy, co-founder of EleutherAI and CEO at Conjecture, and other bored,...

August 30, 2022 Post
Episode 4: Building creative restrictions to curb AI abuse

For better or worse, AI is changing our world. Thanks in part to some imaginative sci-fi dystopian future movies about...

September 6, 2022 Post
Episode 5: Why Debian won’t distribute AI models any time soon

When “artificial intelligence” is mentioned in casual conversation, much of the world thinks about chess. Alan Turing, widely considered to...

September 13, 2022 Post
Aeva Black

I am the current Secretary of the Board for the OSI, and the Vice Chair for the Technical Advisory Committee...

January 18, 2023 Board Member