About Two Months Ago the Open Source Initiative (OSI) Released Its Latest Accounting Files to IRS, Revealing Only 3% of Its Budget Comes From People (OSI is a Corporate Front Group for Microsoft et al)
"Microsoft hardly needs an SCO source license. Its license payment to SCO is simply a good-looking way to pass along a bribe..."
-Bruce Perens, OSI cofounder
"On the same day that CA blasted SCO, Open Source evangelist Eric Raymond revealed a leaked email from SCO's strategic consultant Mike Anderer to their management. The email details how, surprise surprise, Microsoft has arranged virtually all of SCO's financing, hiding behind intermediaries like Baystar Capital."
-Bruce Perens
THE OSI, whose founder nowadays rejects for abuse, is being drowned by GAFAM money (strings attached; be their mouthpiece!), not by community members' dues, just like many others including the Linux Foundation.
This is 2.5 months old:
The part about Microsoft:
Notice the grotesque imbalance: (in spite of their attempts at perception shifting, constantly pretending in their blog posts that they're beholden to individual donors)
So you know who pays the salaries.
As a full-time Microsoft shill Stefano Maffuli (Executive Director at OSI) now gets about $165,000 for 40 hours per week. He's worth every penny, at least from Microsoft's perspective, for lobbying for Microsoft in this massive GPL violations lawsuit. █