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One Laptop Per Child in Afghanistan

CNN reports Laptops bring lessons, maybe even peace. It's good to see the One Laptop Per Child project back on...

March 5, 2009 Post
Reducing the risks of vendor lock-in

Peter Hansteen of Bergen Norway reports that the Norwegian Police Force has disclosed two large-scale information security incidents. He explains...

March 16, 2009 Post
Announcement: Major Restructuring of OSI Mailing Lists

Dear OSI Community, As part of our ongoing effort to improve transparency and encourage participation, the Open Source Initiative is...

December 12, 2007 Post
About

About the Open Source Initiative As steward of the Open Source Definition, we set the foundation for the open source...

September 19, 2006 Page
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
Open Source AI Definition – Weekly update May 13

Early thoughts on “Apple sample code license”? Apple has released a license to distribute its new model, OpenELM. The license...

May 14, 2024 Post
The year of change for the Open Source Initiative

The year 2021 marked the beginning of new ways to allow the organization to achieve its mission. New structure, new...

June 16, 2022 Post
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 does AI have in common with Open Source?

OSI Executive Director, Stefano Maffulli, sat down with Richard Littauer and Justin Dorfman hosts of the podcast series Sustain and had an...

July 1, 2022 Post
The future of innovation has patent-free standards

It may come as a surprise to find that some supposedly “open“ standards – including those ratified by standards development...

July 12, 2022 Post
Opening up ChatGPT: a case study in operationalizing openness in AI

Part of the Deep Dive: AI Webinar Series Openness in AI is necessarily a multidimensional and therefore graded notion. We...

October 14, 2023 Page
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