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Summary: Open Source Initiative (OSI) blog posts, podcasts and public talks are just Microsoft propaganda wrapped up as "OSI" (buying the opposition's voice to legitimise oneself)

THIS site recently mentioned several mischievous moves by the OSI. See "The MICROSOFT Initiative (OSI)", "Stefano Maffulli, Informally a Microsoft Employee, Salaried Partly by Microsoft", "Open Source Initiative Controlled (Infiltrated) by Microsoft GitHub: Microsoft Bribes OSI to Justify GPL Violations Under the Guise of 'AI', Even Writes the OSI's Material", and "Open Source Initiative is a Shameless Megaphone and Advocate for Microsoft’s Proprietary Software (GitHub). It Also Encourages Copyright and GPL Violations (Plagiarism Disguised as ‘AI’)."

We wrote dozens of blog posts about this in the past. We published long videos to explain the situation. OSI mostly responded by attempts to censor if not defame us (the defamation helps them with the censorship attempts).

A longtime contributor, figosdev, recalls that the OSI's own (co)founder publicly warned about the OSI going wrong only a year after it had been established. Now, many years later, opensource.com and opensource.org are both going south. Microsoft hijacks both of them to distort the narrative and basically lie to the public, using the platform (and brand) of a former rival. ⬆