Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 2nd Sep 2007 18:40 UTC
Eric S. Raymond writes on his blog: "There's been a lot of debate in the community about how OSI should properly handle Microsoft's planned submission of some of its licenses for OSD certification. That debate has been been going on within OSI, too. OSI's official position, from the beginning, which I helped formulate and have expressed to any number of reporters and analysts, is that OSI will treat any licenses submitted to Microsoft strictly on their merits, without fear or favor. That remains OSI's position. But I find that my resolve is being sorely tested."
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RE[4]: OSI moral judge ?
by trenchsol on Mon 3rd Sep 2007 16:31
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Sounds like you (and Raymond) think they are doing a favor to somebody. As I understand issues are supposed to be related to a license, not to a general behavior of submitters. However, if you are right, then OSI is just a political instrument of some activist group. In that case I don't know why would Microsoft, or anyone else, bother with them.
RE[5]: OSI moral judge ?
by archiesteel on Mon 3rd Sep 2007 16:40
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If they don't act according to their own criteria, they are hurting their reputation in the first place. And, yes, even I can submit a license to OSI, no matter that I had no previous contact with them.
That's just not the point. Many standards organisations, academic bodies and committees have such criteria, but if you haven't supported them previously and cannot get along with your peers then they simply aren't going to give you too much time in the day. Fact of life.
Check http://www.opensource.org/approval
particularly point 8.
Waving a committee's process procedure in their face as the only thing that matters is a sure fire way to get you thrown out, but by all means, read point 8:
Once we are assured that the license conforms to the Open Source Definition and has received thorough discussion on license-discuss or by other reviewers, and there are no remaining issues that we judge significant, we will notify you that the license has been approved, copy it to our website, and add it to the list below.
I would judge your attitude to the open source concept, the OSI as an organisation and the attitude to your fellow peers on the mailing list to be pretty significant, and so would any other collaborative organisation.