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Summary: A Microsoft-infiltrated OSI (Microsoft has in fact helped Vladimir Putin) flexes its muscles by basically watering down the Open Source Definition (OSD) and giving a platform to known trolls, whose goal is to undermine the Freedom of Free software (to impose their worldviews on others)

THE OSI statement, issued late on Wednesday (yesterday), seems redundant and disturbing for a number of reasons, which are covered in the above video.

It's no secret that ‘Ethical Source’ isn't about ethics and isn't even compatible with Open Source. Why does the OSI give attention to those people?

We've already covered the subject in previous articles and videos [1, 2, 3].

The OSI could focus on the Open Source Definition without jumping into the "let's ban entire nations" bandwagon. Leave the "collective punishment" crowd aside. You hurt innocent people, including Free software volunteers/contributors, based on thoroughly misguided assumptions.

Allowing users to run their software as they wish (without conditions and restrictions such as discriminatory exclusions) is "important to free software", one person said in IRC. But ""open source" software has responded to the war by either violating software freedoms and adding a terms of use to their license, or sabotaging Russians by ruining their Russian localization file [...] software freedoms don't mean anything to these developers because they have been abstracted away by "open source"..."

This is how the FSF has responded to these issues. No need for expulsions; expelling people who aren't even supporting Putin isn't justice but an injustice.

"So Red Hat, SuSE, and Docker are about to learn what being open source actually means. You'd think they would already know, but apparently not," said this one person in LXer yesterday afternoon (under "What part of open source do they not understand?"), so the sentiment is widespread, even among some Americans. ⬆