Voices of Open Source

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  • It isn’t open source if it doesn’t pass “The patch test”.

    I think most know by now that a license is insufficient to make something actually open source. The license just …

  • Board Meeting Report

    The Open Source Initiative (OSI) Board meet this weekend in San Francisco for its annual face-to-face meeting (generously hosted by …

  • Microsoft Loves Open Source

    Somehow I missed that Microsoft loves Open Source. There is a reason I missed it. When Microsoft is not …

  • Donate To OSI

    Many people have asked if it’s possible to donate to OSI to support our mission and activities. The answer is …

  • FSF Leadership Change

    A change of leadership at the Free Software Foundation provides the OSI Board an opportunity to thank the outgoing Executive …

  • Happy Birthday Wikipedia!

    Probably the greatest benefit of open source software is the liberty it creates to unleash innovation and the unexpected. By giving everyone four key liberties – to use the software for any purpose, to study it, to modify it and to pass it to others – software under OSI-approved licenses can be used in any…

  • The Concrete Benefits of Open Source Software

    Following up on an earlier blog posting, Indian Open Standards Policy Finalized, I read an article published in the …

  • Indian Open Standards Policy Finalized

    Venkatesh Hariharan reports: After three years of continuous running battles, India’s Department of Information Technology has finalized the national policy …

  • CSIS Updates Open Source Policy Survey

    The Center for Strategic & International Studies updated their latest survey of Government Open Source Policies for 2010, and it …

  • A brief history — 35 years of open source software

    a great set of slides by Francois Marier. …

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