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Bruce Perens and the OSI board

Bruce Perens and the OSI board

Posted Mar 25, 2008 12:18 UTC (Tue) by danielhedblom (subscriber, #47307)
Parent article: Bruce Perens and the OSI board

Microsofts ISO debacle, SCO and all the other actions they take daily to hurt Linux in general
should be more than enough to keep them at a ten foot poles lenght away from any open source
organisation. Just as they did with the ISO any influence in OSI will be used to change it for
their own good, not in any way for the community. 

Just read any of their licenses that specifically excludes GPL by obvious targeting. Do we
want a company like that in OSI? A company whos only goal is to push anything and anyone aside
for its own sake.

If someone thinks having Microsoft in OSI would in any way benefit open source i am pretty
sure that person must have been living under a rock or something since 1994. 

That alone is worth having more people from the OSS community in OSI, not just Bruce but as
many as possible. 


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