The "Open Source" (Corporate Openwashing) Fake Community Rejects Democracy, Open Source Initiative is in Effect Dead
Yesterday: Fedora is IBM and There's Hardly Any Community Left
Weeks ago: Only One Person in Charge of Fedora is Not IBM Staff
The whole "Open Source" thing was never a movement and hasn't been a community for quite some time, either. The openwashing camp came to dominate this brand and now it dominates the OSI, too. It controls both the brand and the enforcer of the brand.
Consider this new article about Fedora (IBM). It's still behind LWN's paywall:
Very few people voted on this. Hundreds.
How many of them were just IBM staff? Good luck finding out.
The following from LWN, not behind a paywall, says "OSI pauses 2026 board election cycle".
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has announced that it will not be holding the 2026 spring board election. Instead, it will be creating a working group to "
review and improve OSI's board member selection process" and provide recommendations by September 2026: [...]
Looking at the OSI's official blog, this was authored by Deb Bryant, who is a fanatic slop pusher as we showed here before (showing that her writings are a words salad of or about slop). She says: "OSI’s mission remains unchanged. The board will continue its oversight responsibilities. OSI will continue its work in support of open source licensing and policy, community education, and protecting the Open Source Definition and advancing the Open Source AI Definition." Ah, yes, pushing slop for their sponsors.
Remember when OSI was meant to protect Open Source instead of inflating some Ponzi scheme and encouraging plagiarism? Looking at recent OSI leaders, those are people who do not and cannot code (or never coded). They've put put in charge for over 5 years already. People like these: 
The "2026 OSI Elections Update" implies they cannot handle the idea of real public scrutiny. In their own words: "Pausing the 2026 Board Election Cycle to Improve How OSI Selects Directors and Hears the Community" If it "Hears the Community", what community? A whistleblower told us that "OSI [is] captured" and added: "They cancelled the elections, stopped publishing board minutes after receiving lots of money from MongoDB?"
The "OSI has become a big problem and works counter to its original goals," said an associate. There's a lot of anger about this and colourful comments in LWN.
This is basically the end of the OSI. They'll struggle to find a new (and suitably qualified) Executive Director; the previous one isn't there... for a reason. No credible people will pursue this job. █