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The OSI celebrates maintainer month

There are all sorts of people maintaining Open Source software, from developers to quality assurance, project managers, tech writers and...

June 9, 2022 Post
Patent Trolls in the 21st Century

Moore's Law has been a powerful enabler of innovation because every 36-48 months you get twice the CPU cycles at...

September 11, 2009 Post
Microsoft and standards–deja vu all over again?

On November 2nd, 2006, Microsoft and Novell announced a business agreement that, without adding any prejudice of my own, was...

February 22, 2008 Post
Organic Software

This weekend we went to Winchester Farmers' Market. It was a beautiful day and the season is especially rich so...

September 27, 2009 Post
Open source AI between enablement, transparency and reproducibility

Part of the Deep Dive: AI Webinar Series Open source AI is a misnomer. AI, notably in the form of...

October 14, 2023 Page
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
Tackling sticky questions about cryptocurrency and Open Source from a legal perspective

In the days following the Free Software Foundation Europe Legal Network Conference in Stockholm, an email discussion ensued that brought...

July 20, 2022 Post
OSI to attend SCaLE 19x conference

We’re off again! This time to SCaLE 19X- the 19th annual Southern California Linux Expo happening July 28th - July...

July 26, 2022 Post
The importance of Open Source AI and the challenges of liberating data

(This post is taken from a speech given remotely at LLW 2023 by OSI Executive director Stefano Maffulli) The conference...

May 4, 2023 Post
An Open Letter to the US Navy (that everybody should read)

Marv Langston served as Department of Defense Deputy Chief Information Officer (CIO), where he helped initiate the Global Information Grid,...

January 14, 2010 Post
Sovereign by Design: A Blueprint for Federated, Consent-Based AI Systems

Part of the Deep Dive: Data Governance Webinar Series Open source AI is often praised for transparency and scale—but too often overlooks...

October 7, 2025 Page
You need more than free rocks

We're realizing is that Open Source is more than just free software. Free software is like free rocks. You need...

April 25, 2008 Post