A Lot of What Happened to OSI is Because of Reporting by Techrights
Half a year since Stefano Maffulli (Executive Director) "left". He now works for a front group which helps endorse software patents on behalf of IBM, Microsoft etc. (Anything to avoid abolishing such patents)
Last year Techrights wrote a lot about the OSI (almost 100 articles in total). It had spoken to whistleblowers, neatly organised the information that could be gathered, and gradually released information that proved damaging enough to the OSI's leadership - resulting in 'decapitation' this past autumn. Since then we've heard and learned why Patrick (the GM) left the OSI and what led to that.
OSI is ugly.
Techrights has long pointed out that the OSI was infiltrated by GAFAM and IBM. By 2021 it was already almost fully dominated by Microsoft (we showed the money trail and HR issues). OSI then attempted to defame and deplatform me. That was their response for their corruption becoming more widely known.
The last time the OSI had a blog post was 4 weeks ago (March 11) and it was by Microsoft's Nick Vidal. Yes, Microsoft has long dominated the official OSI blog. Oftentimes Microsoft 'speaks' for "Open Source", which it is also attacking at the same time. OSI promotes GPL violations (plagiarism), proprietary GitHub etc.
Microsoft has turned OSI into a total disgrace, which battles against its original mission in anything but name.
Notice how, as we reach 6 months without an OSI chief, there is no election (they don't plan to have one!), there's no imminent leadership/stewardship falling into place, and the money is a "smoking gun".
In many ways, OSI is already dead. It was killed by corporate intervention.
I merely pointed out all those things and got viciously attacked for doing so. █