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Special TreatmentSpecial TreatmentPosted Oct 16, 2007 20:56 UTC (Tue) by ncm (subscriber, #165)In reply to: Special Treatment by sbergman27 Parent article: OSI Approves Microsoft License Submissions
Having approved redundant licenses from MS -- redundant in that they differ from existing licenses only in being incompatible with all of them -- only underscores OSI's present irrelevance. Microsoft would not have submitted the licenses if they meant to use them with or without OSI approval. They have plenty of other unapproved licenses to use already. The whole charade depends on having actually approved licenses. Getting these licenses stamped is only a step in a process. You may be certain that the remaining steps will not be toward peaceful coexistence with Free Software. Evidently MS is now applying strategists in this area who are much smarter than the OSI board members.
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Special Treatment Posted Oct 17, 2007 20:09 UTC (Wed) by RussNelson (guest, #27730) [Link] ncm writes "... are much smarter than the OSI board members." That's a solvable problem. You are smarter than us, so you should run for the OSI board. Elections are held in middle to late March. Public nominations are accepted at osi@opensource.org. I suggest you put up your name for one of the seats that will be expiring at the end of March.
OSI board elections Posted Oct 17, 2007 20:33 UTC (Wed) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] Hey, Russ, that's interesting - I've never heard anything about OSI board elections before, and Google doesn't seem to know much either. The bylaws say that the board is elected by ... the board. How open is the process really, and do you plan to announce this election somewhere other than here?
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