Something called Open Source Software Institute, based on its own statements, is appointing board members who have nothing in their career history involving FOSS. As we noted before, letting them speak for FOSS is risky. Some of their funders are proprietary software giants. This whole thing called Open Source Software Institute came virtually out of nowhere and there are strong CIA connections. Let's put our trust in OSI and the FSF(E), not some questionable bodies that label themselves open but show nothing for it. ⬆
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Needs Sunlight
2013-03-28 21:19:48
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2013-03-29 02:13:07
"For more than a decade, OSSI has been sharing the vision of open source across government technology systems."
http://oss-institute.org
In almost a decade of covering FOSS, I never heard of this organisation. Funny that...
As I noted earlier this month, this is mostly SUSE (Microsoft Linux), which returns a cash injection of $100,000,000 (from Microsoft, 2011) into OSSI.
http://oss-institute.org/membership/corporate-members
SUSE is the only member for which a cash amount (sponsorship) is specified. Others, at the second tier of members, "contribute vision and leadership to OSSI." In other words, plurality and some symbolic membership fee (unspecified). It doesn't smell right to me. One lie ("[f]or more than a decade") does not contribute to confidence. This front got publicity for the first time when VMware joined it. VMware too is run by former Microsoft executives, as many ought to know by now.