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275 Open Source Policy Initiatives (and growing)…

The Center for Strategic and International Studies released their sixth update to their CSIS Open Source Policy Study last year,...

March 31, 2009 Post
Open Source responds to the Russia-Ukraine war: First thoughts from the Executive Director

The reaction from the open source community to the Russian aggression in Ukraine has been swift and varied. Many companies...

March 9, 2022 Post
Copyright — Right Answer for Open Source Code, Wrong Answer for Open Source AI?

Part of the Deep Dive: AI Webinar Series Open source has always found its legal foundation primarily in copyright. Although...

October 14, 2023 Page
Rising to answer the call: sound public policy for Open Source questions

I’m pleased to share the news that I've accepted the role of US Policy Director for the Open Source Initiative...

September 12, 2022 Post
Regulatory language cannot be the same for all software

In reviewing the language and concepts being used in the various draft bills and directives circulating in Brussels at present,...

May 25, 2023 Post
When you’re in Open Source your error longevity is nearly eternal

When you have a startup you ego-surf a lot. It isn't for the normal reasons people ego surf (indeed there...

April 11, 2009 Post
The Fediverse unlocks a world of composable distributed apps

There’s more to Mastodon than just replacing Twitter. There’s an old story about someone in the dark feeling the trunk...

December 6, 2022 Post
2022 is almost over, welcome 2023!

As I’m closing out my first full year as executive director of the Open Source Initiative, I’m amazed by what...

December 21, 2022 Post
Recap/Summary of the Digital Market Act workshop in Brussels

This Monday, I was in Brussels to attend a stakeholder workshop for the Digital Market Act (DMA) organized by the...

March 9, 2023 Post
Netbook Insights from The Economist

As a rule, I really enjoy reading the Economist. I find its articles to be well researched and its editorial...

December 15, 2008 Post
Takeaways from the “Defining Open AI” community workshop

The Open Source Initiative is deep into a multi-stakeholder process to define machine learning systems that can be characterized as...

July 27, 2023 Post
OSI at OSCON 2015

Once again the OSI and our Board of Directors will be at OSCON. Just like in years past, the OSI...

July 2, 2015 Post