When it comes to Open Source Initiative’s 2025 board election, we’re reminded of Yogi Berra’s observation that, “It ain’t over ’til it’s over.”
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Here’s some preliminary information about AlmaLinux OS Foundation’s upcoming board election. We’ll keep you up-to-date as we learn more.
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To the extent that Open Source Initiative is known, today it is perhaps best known for controversy rather than for its guardianship of open source.
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In this second of our two part interview, Kooyman talks about moves the foundation has made to remain resilient and relevant in an ever changing world where nothing is certain.
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At this point, Open Source Initiative is starting to look like an organization that’s willingly turning its back on its founding principles.
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In this, the first of a two part interview, the Free Software Foundation’s executive director Zoë Kooyman talks about changes at FSF since Richard Stallman stepped down as president about six years ago, the difference between “free software” and “open …
Mozilla is evidently selling your data down river, while continuing to brag about how much it’s protecting your privacy.
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Under fire from several different camps for a variety of reasons, Open Source Initiative announces board candidates that, to the surprise of no one, doesn’t include Luke Faraone.
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As OSI attempts to do damage control on social media without admitting that it made a mistake that needs to be rectified, more evidence surfaces indicating that the organization might be trying to change facts after the fact.
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Remember the classic headline from the 1970s: “Ford to city — drop dead?” Well, this is how it looks, transcribed to open source in the 21st century. It’s a different scale, but…
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Inquiring minds want to know if a potential candidate’s opposition to OSI’s Open Source AI Definition is the reason it pulled a previously unknown time zone rule out of a magic hat to deny his nomination.
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From where we sit, Google’s “giveaway” of it’s open source Chromium assets is basically a ruse to convince the feds that the company isn’t an intentional monopolist.
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On Monday, the Apache Software Foundation announced that Ruth Suehle has replaced David Nalley as the foundation’s president.
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The Gnome Foundation indicates increased belt tightening in its new budget due to continuing financial woes.
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Two months after Holly Million tendered her resignation — and a month-and-a-half after leaving — the financially strapped Gnome Foundation announces that the search is on for a new executive director.
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On August 30, 2024 the Free Software Foundation will close its office for the last time as the organization goes all remote.
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The Apache Software Foundation is making changes in an attempt to right a wrong it unintentionally created when it adopted its name 25-years ago.
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Professional shaman Holly Million, who became Gnome’s executive director in October, has evidently participated in a banishing ritual and will disappear from Gnome at the end of this month.
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Cory Doctorow will be playing emcee, and writer and security expert Tarah Wheeler will be offering last minute down-and-dirty tips on how to play the game. Have fun; maybe win a little money; maybe lose some. It’s for the Electronic Frontier Foundation…
The Free Software Foundation might be getting itself back on track as the radical watchdog for copyleft and free software with the appointment of free software activist and pioneer John Gilmore to its board of directors.
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