So the OSI continues to grow irrelevant...
So the OSI continues to grow irrelevant...
Posted Mar 22, 2025 6:34 UTC (Sat) by gwolf (subscriber, #14632)Parent article: OSI election ends with unsatisfying results
I followed the process before it unfolded, as I was one of few volunteers to be nominated for the Debian affiliate seat when our DPL announced Debian could run a candidate for an affiliate seat. I did want to run this election, and I did have some clear arguments — but when I saw who the other DDs volunteering were, Luke and Bradley among them, I decided to step back as I am sure they would be (they would have been, sadly) better representatives for our project than myself.
Anyway... Yes, the OSI has repeatedly met with resistance from us, the free software developers and believers, those of us that have embraced the “Open Source” moniker because it is better understood “out there”. Sadly, stupidly badly run elections such as what we witnessed, as we say in Spanish, are but “just one more stripe to the tiger” for an organization that has left its community behind and plainly does not care about legitimacy.