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- Microsoft apologizes to Open Source Initiative for policy violation
- Microsoft apologizes to Open Source Initiative for policy violationwho do they think they are fooling?apologizing for nothing does not absolve M$ of the other grave crimes they commited in the last 20 years.The point of CodePlex is???I have a fellow developer thats completely oblivious to anything non-MS. We would discuss...
- Tags: Open Source Initiative, open source, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-06
- Microsoft apologizes to Open Source Initiative for policy violation
- After outcry from various constituencies over the past couple of days, Microsoft has pulled from its CodePlex site its Sandcastle project for failure to comply with the terms and conditions required in order to be qualify as bona-fide open source. Sandcastle is a documentation compiler for managed...
- Tags: OSI, Open Source Initiative, Microsoft Corp., Sandcastle, Open Source, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-06-06
- Microsoft gets the open-source licensing nod from the OSI
- Microsoft was awarded an official Open Source Initiative OSI approval for the two Shared Source licenses it submitted for consideration in August -- but not without agreeing to some OSI-requested changes first. On October 16, Microsoft officials announced that the Microsoft Permissive License (MS-PL) -- which is...
- Tags: OSI, Open Source Initiative, Microsoft Corp., Open Source, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2007-10-16
- Microsoft now wants its Shared Source licenses to qualify as open source
- Microsoft has decided it wants its Shared Source license to get the official "open source" label, after all.Microsoft officials said at the O'Reilly Open Source Conference OSCON conference this week that they are going to seek Open Source Initiative OSI approval, but have not provided a specific timetable as to...
- Tags: Shared Source, Linux
- Blog posts 2007-07-26
- It's not open source until the OSI says so
- The Open Source Initiative is cracking down on the loosey goosey way the term "open source" is being thrown around. Triggered in part by this Dana Blankenhorn post OSI president Michael Tiemann outlines why the OSI needs to crack down on abusive use of the term open source. In other...
- Tags: General, Linux, Open Source, Software Infrastructure
- Blog posts 2007-06-21
- Intalio makes disingenuous claim that it has released code as open source
- I just received a press release from Intalio who is engaging in what Id consider to be more slight of hand when it comes to vendors claiming that theyve released code under an open source license when that isnt the case, at least according to the people who have written...
- Tags: Mozilla Public License, Legal, Software Infrastructure, Open Source, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-12
- Attribution may matter (in open source licensing), but making the Open Source Initiative whole matters first
- Attribution may matter in open source licensing, but making the Open Source Initiative whole matters firstKudos to SocialTextI will be amoung the people who disagree with Ross Mayfield on the specifics of the badgeware provision but he is ABSOLUTELY to be commended for getting it out in the open, and...
- Tags: Open Source Initiative, open source, OSI
- Discussion threads 2006-11-28
- Attribution may matter (in open source licensing), but making the Open Source Initiative whole matters first
- Just before the Thanksgiving holiday here in the US, I wrote about how a handful of vendors including customer relationship management solution provider SugarCRM were distributing software under licenses that they claimed to be open source licenses, but that dont appear on the Open Source Initiatives OSI official list of...
- Tags: Berlind, Software Infrastructure, Open Source, General, Open Source Initiative
- Blog posts 2006-11-28
- Open Source Initiative gets into the game of defining 'open'
- Open Source Initiative gets into the game of defining 'open'I can't see the problem here...... an open standard is one whose specification is publicly available to anyone who wants it. It also, in my mind, implies that anyone who implements the standard will not be sued for doing so.With Open...
- Tags: open source, Open Source Initiative, game
- Discussion threads 2006-07-28
- Open Source Initiative gets into the game of defining 'open'
- Ever since the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' definition of an open standard was thrust into the spotlight as the state's IT department looked to establish the OpenDocument Format as the standard file format for electronically saving and retrieving state documents, the definition of what it means for something (a standard, source...
- Tags: Open Source Initiative, open standard
- Blog posts 2006-07-28
- Photos: Internet Archives' book project
- The open-source initiative wants to digitize all the world's books and make them universally available.
- Tags: Open Source Initiative, open source, Internet
- Image galleries 2005-10-26
- Photos: Internet Archives' book project
- The open-source initiative wants to digitize all the world's books and make them universally available.
- Tags: Open Source Initiative, open source, Internet
- Image galleries 2005-10-26
- OSI committee rejects former founder Bruce Perens' membership application
- Over the weekend, Bruce Perens, who was one of the original founders of the Open Source Initiative OSI but now currently serves as vice president of developer relations and policy for SourceLabs, publicly expressed his dismay over the rejection of an application he filed to become a member of a...
- Tags: Bruce Perens, open source
- Blog posts 2005-08-22
- Microsoft to forge relationship with Open Source Initiative?
- Microsoft to forge relationship with Open Source Initiative?Sounds likeMicrosoft is realizing the full power of Open Source. I am skeptical on this and will take a wait and see stance. But I believe Microsoft is realizing that if they don't figure out how to slow Open Source down, they are...
- Tags: Open Source Initiative, Microsoft Corp., open source, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-06-03
- Microsoft to forge relationship with Open Source Initiative?
- eWeek has a report that quotes Open Source Initiative acting president Michael Tiemann as saying "Microsoft reached out to me as president of the OSI and they basically said they wanted to begin a productive conversation, and we agreed to take that at face value." Later the report...
- Tags: open source, OSI
- Blog posts 2005-06-03
- Open Source Initiative Board takes shape
- Open Source Initiative Board takes shapeOSI President - Are you kidding me!Kim Polese for OSI board president, please! First, this is not a reflection on Kim but on the author of this article. Kim, to my knowledge, has no open source experienceJava is not open source and whose primary qualification...
- Tags: open source, Open Source Initiative board, Open Source Initiative
- Discussion threads 2005-04-02
- Open Source Initiative Board takes shape
- Danese Cooper, the open source diva who recently left Sun to join Intel, and who is also an officer at the Open Source Initiative, is spreading the word that the OSI has announced a new board. According to her new blog she had an old one, joining her and acting president...
- Tags: Kim Polese, open source, OSI
- Blog posts 2005-04-01
- Red Hat exec takes over Open Source Initiative
- Red Hat exec takes over Open Source Initiativered hat cost almost as mch as windows anymorewhat up with that - lolThe software IS free...It just cost you $999.99 for instruction manual on how to operate it...
- Tags: Open Source Initiative, Red Hat Inc., open source
- Discussion threads 2005-03-04
- Tiemann talks on serving two masters (Red Hat and the OSI)
- In case you missed the news, amidst a bit of controversy, the Open Source Initiative OSI is now on its third president in as many months. The organization, which must maintain its relevance while the political landscape within the open source community is in flux, can ill afford the...
- Tags: open source, Open Source Initiative
- Blog posts 2005-03-04
- Amidst restructuring, Open Source Initiative founder Eric Raymond makes room for new regime
- Under a great deal of stress from all corners of the technology industry due to a structure and process that more closely resembles that of a club rather than an organization that can professionally lead and represent the interets of such a rapidly growing community, the Open Source Initiative has...
- Tags: open source, OSI
- Blog posts 2005-01-31
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