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Bruce Perens and the OSI board

Posted Mar 24, 2008 19:58 UTC (Mon) by jake (editor, #205)
In reply to: Bruce Perens and the OSI board by elanthis
Parent article: Bruce Perens and the OSI board

My point, which perhaps I didn't make clear, was that Microsoft's employees don't (currently)
make the kind of contribution to Open Source that might get them considered for the OSI board.
That whatever contributions they make were not "substantial" enough to get that kind of
consideration.  It wasn't meant to be a bash at MS or MS employees really.

jake

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bashing MS or MS employees, generally

Posted Mar 24, 2008 21:16 UTC (Mon) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link]

... not that there would be anything wrong with that.

Bruce Perens and the OSI board

Posted Mar 24, 2008 22:43 UTC (Mon) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510) [Link]

Jake,

OSI has certified two Microsoft licenses. Microsoft claims that they are officially active in Open Source. So, I'm not sure you were on base at all. You also completely neglected my comment during our interview that Matt, who sets the program for OSBC, gave Microsoft the keynote speech. I had some IMO concrete reasons to be worried. Look at the farce MS is running in ISO, which is all about ballot-box manipulation of organizations.

Bruce