The OSI Has Been Silent for Over 3 Weeks, It Has a Severe Trust Issue After Promoting Microsoft and Proprietary GitHub
OSI took a lot of money from Microsoft to become a Microsoft lobbyist; Microsoft also does this in the EU [1, 2] in order to control the competition or the opposition (installing itself as an authority by compromising key organisations and people with bribes)
Examples of OSI abuses were covered here before and exactly a month ago we said we'd likely continue until August. Most sites just chose to cover the election scandals at the OSI and nothing else.
It should be noted that the OSI's own blog was last active 3 weeks ago. That's quite unusual.
Why so quiet and why now?
Including the bans, the privacy complaints etc. there are a bunch of other OSI scandals. The OSI is basically in the wrong hands and it's doing harm to well-meaning people. One person told us, "so [redacted] has actually been trying to get the OSI to remove the post about where they speculate how he got the list. And he’s trying to do it quietly because it’s coming up and search affecting his job."
They basically try to attack or to 'fish out' whistleblowers, not fix their issues. That's bad.
"Also," we got told, "I have to mention this because it was something really weird that is going on in the discussion at OSI. They’re talking about people who curl and install the script."
"It’s almost like they’re questioning trust," we got told, "like as if [maybe] they’re going in the direction of being trust authority, I don’t know..."
Like the Linux Foundation?
"However," we were told, "I have no problems with them not trusting Microsoft and GitHub. lol" (sarcasm)
The Linux Foundation outsourced everything, even certificates for trust, to Microsoft. To proprietary software, if that's not bad enough.
"If they informed people to read scripts before they install the script," we got told "well, then that would be the one good thing that they ever did. lol"
"I just thought it was a little strange like maybe they’re trying to dictate how we develop and use Curl or maybe they’re trying to dictate the process. Yeah, I don’t get [...] Why this is part of a licensing discussion. Very strange to me… just stuck out." █