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I worked full-time on a project that was just one hundred lines of code in 1996. In the early 1990s...

For some time, the term "Open Standard" has been gaining in market popularity. Unlike Open Source, which has had a...

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Members Newsletter – August 2025 Dear Open Source Initiative supporters, As the days stretch long and the lure of beaches...

Recently the Sun published an article by Ryan Sabey (@ryansabey), “UNION HACK Jeremy Corbyn’s digital democracy manifesto ‘would let foreign...

Welcome to the Open Source Initiative's quarterly newsletter. This particular newsletter will recap the end of 2020 for both the...

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Since he was a child, Marco Marinello has always found computers and how they operate intriguing. His father introduced him...

When I first came across the GNU General Public License in 1986, it was nothing short of an epiphany for...

Introduction The OSI’s mailing lists aim to facilitate constructive discussion of issues related to open source and further the goals...

Thanks to a single staff member, ten volunteer board members, and dozens of interns, volunteers, and members, the Open Source...

The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has worked for over 20 years to promote and protect open source software and communities,...