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Open Source Initiative's (OSI) Latest IRS Files: Only 2.9% (2.90046827447%) of Its Income is From Members

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 07, 2025,
updated Mar 07, 2025

Don't believe it? See the original (Page 9 in Form 990 (2023)).

Membership dues

Open Source Initiative (OSI) ENTRYISM, a Lobbyist of Microsoft

We have some advice for sceptical readers. We advise them to look for original documents. If they do not wish to rely on us (the OSI has long attempted to censor and slander us [1, 2]), then they should at least "do their own research".

Look at the document above. It comes from the OSI itself.

So almost all the money is corporate, with lots of it funneled through (and to) Microsoft. It is a shell game. The staff of OSI exists to serve Microsoft and its agenda, e.g. GPL violations - a subject so sensitive that Microsofters send us threats to censor important pages.

We're talking about a lot of money:

Open Source Initiative pay

AEVA BLACK, Open Source Initiative, Microsoft

Lots more coming this month.

Related formal complaint; ongoing series: part 0 | part 1 | part 2 | part 3

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