The Fall of the Open Source Initiative (OSI): Plenty of Issues, Plenty of Censorship
Censorship is a common theme at the OSI. This needs to end. Transparency wins the day. Secrecy leads to catastrophe, eventually.
The OSI of recent years is a dictatorship striving to just gag or ban critics. This is how failed dictatorships behave - focusing on squashing the facts or those who say out these facts, as it's perceived/seen as easier than actually improving oneself.
In the introductory part, part 1, part 2, part 3, and part 4 (plus addenda [1, 2]) we covered the basics and observed current media coverage, seeing it did not cover the core issues and instead focused on elections. Those elections were and still are merely a symptom.
Today we give a rough overview of aspects to be covered. "I don't think I had that many browser tabs open in a long time," a source told us. "Here is a summary of my research."
1. Election issues in 20212. Banned ESR [co-founder of OSI]
3. Censored and banned members
4. Lobbying accusations
5. Taking corporate sponsorship
6. Inconsistent time zone information
"The credibility, reliability and accountability of the Open Source Initiative comes into question," the source said, "again."
The OSI has been attempting to censor critics like us for a very long time [1, 2]. These censorship attempts won't be tolerated; filing false reports about us isn't merely a low blow; it's abuse.
The OSI is abusive on many levels! █