Bruce Perens and the OSI board [LWN.net]

Bruce Perens and the OSI board

Posted Mar 24, 2008 23:50 UTC (Mon) by pinky0x51 (guest, #40742)
In reply to: Bruce Perens and the OSI board by BrucePerens
Parent article: Bruce Perens and the OSI board

Gift: BSD
In-Between: GPL with exception.
Sharing-with-rules: GPL
Software-as-a-service: Affero GPL.

Maybe you should try to join the FSF instead of the OSI. The FSF already promotes a set of 4 licenses and to use compatible licenses: GPL, LGPL, Affero GPL and in some cases BSD-style licenses (afaik e.g. to push a standard like Ogg Vorbis).

OK, you would have to talk about Free Software instead of Open Source. But as you said already 1999: "It's Time to Talk about Free Software Again"

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Bruce Perens and the OSI board

Posted Mar 25, 2008 0:03 UTC (Tue) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510) [Link]

You mean the FSF BOARD??? That's a lot more difficult to get on than OSI's board.

I am already an FSF associate member. Fortunately, today nobody at OSI is running a campaign to deprecate Richard Stallman any longer. That was the problem in 1999.

Bruce

Bruce Perens and the OSI board

Posted Mar 25, 2008 0:20 UTC (Tue) by pinky0x51 (guest, #40742) [Link]

I don't know the internal structure of the FSF and how hard it is to get on the Board.

But i thought that for you the topics (e.g. license proliferation.) is the important part and
not your position in an organisation. I think you could find more like-minded people in the
FSF than in the OSI for this topic. So i think you could at least work with them together in
promoting such a set of licenses. If they will offer you a place in the board and when they
will do it depends probably on how satisfied they are with your work but this should be an
minor point, shouldn't it? It's the work which is important not the position.

Bruce Perens and the OSI board

Posted Mar 25, 2008 4:42 UTC (Tue) by BrucePerens (subscriber, #2510) [Link]

I think you could find more like-minded people in the FSF than in the OSI for this topic.

It would be very comfortable for me to work with the general FSF membership, because I appreciate the need for Freedom, as they do. If you think I can be prickly, you haven't worked with the FSF leadership. I hold Richard very highly, but he is the world's most difficult person to be friends with.

But we're not really discussing the mission I have set myself, which is to be a bridge from people who fully appreciate the Free Software movement to people who don't. Participating in "Open Source" lets me get to them. And eventually a lot of them realize that Stallman was right, but they certainly don't start out that way.

Bruce