Choose Your Representatives On the Open Source Initiative Board

Bruce Perens writes: The Open Source Initiative is holding an election for 6 board seats. We shouldn't have an election without a policy debate! Even if you aren't an OSI member, you can (and should) ask questions of the candidates. To do so, go to the election site, register on the wiki, and then enter questions at the bottom of each candidate's statement. The XWiki syntax is here.

No need to register

[Bruce Perens]

I've been informed that it is not necessary to register on the Wiki, and you can post comments anonymously. Uh-oh. Might be a lot of work for the OSI admin tomorrow. Please be gentle to him and post serious questions to the candidates.

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[rbanffy]

Do they allow kids to vote?

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[Anonymous Coward]

Oh hell yes! He's been part of the open source story for so long he's basically family!

OSI is a waste

[110010001000]

The OSI organization is a failure and has ruined the Free Software movement. The entire organization should be abandoned. We had a chance to make Free Software free forever and we blew it. Now Open Source is being used to monitor and sell us out to the mega corporations. And there is nothing we can do about it because we gave it away with "corporate friendly" OSI efforts.

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[Anonymous Coward]

The OSI organization is a failure and has ruined the Free Software movement. The entire organization should be abandoned. We had a chance to make Free Software free forever and we blew it. Now Open Source is being used to monitor and sell us out to the mega corporations. And there is nothing we can do about it because we gave it away with "corporate friendly" OSI efforts.

Furthermore, the source 'contributed' by the corporations often come with MASSIVE STRINGS ATTACHED , making them not truly open source, nor allowing us to use them on our own projects !!

I thank Bruce for informing us of the OSI election, like ICANN (once an organization open for all Netizens), OSI's priority is for those with power and influences.

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[Wootery]

Stallman abandoned his morals and allowed and it to be used to create all manner of freedom-disrespecting software.

Do your homework. They did think it through. [gnu.org] It's essentially an application of Freedom Zero.

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[sheramil]

I didn't realise Command and Conquer needed a hotline. It seemed fairly straightforward.

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[The Vorlon]

Only 1 point awarded for being a Debian Developer? You've badly misjudged. Our next release will include a click-through license that requires all you idiot men's rights activists to marry your dogs as a condition of using the software.

Can't handle codes of conduct that obligate you to behave like a decent human being? Suck it up, snowflake.

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[rbanffy]

Kick out all those authoritarian regressive freaks who defend safe spaces and codes of conduct.

"Anonymous Coward" never seemed more appropriate...