The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is Openwashing, Ben Cotton (Fedora) Acknowledges It, Fails to See How Bribes Led to That

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 25, 2024

Recent: The Corruption of Open Source Initiative (OSI), a Front Group of Microsoft and GAFAM, Openwashing Proprietary Things and Even Plagiarism, GPL Violations

This week:

The latest draft notably does not require the training data to be available under an open license. I believe this is a mistake. No, it is sponsored by Microsoft and GAFAM

So Ben Cotton managed to avoid the point about OSI taking MICROSOFT BRIBES to do the bad things OSI nowadays does. As if... it "just happened".

This is a profound and widespread problem. We need to be able to talk about this problem without fear of getting CoC-slapped or getting libeled by OSI leadership.

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