[Greeklug] Το Open Source Initiative επιθυμεί να αναβαπτιστεί!

[Kostas Boukouvalas]

http://www.opensource.org/governance/announce

OSI was formed in 1998 to solve a pressing problem. The founders
embraced the ideals of software freedom, but saw that businesses -
being non-persons - lacked any way to embrace a philosophical
principle. To advance software freedom, it needed to be pragmatically
"projected" onto the surface of the computer industry of 1998. The
result was a focus on a certain kind of advocacy, plus an enormously
valuable effort to analyse, categorise and selectively endorse
copyright licenses. OSI was the pragmatic projection of software
freedom onto the computer industry of 1998.

But in 2010, the industry has changed. It's due in no small part to
the effects of software freedom on technology and innovation, with the
pragmatic liberties it guarantees seeding today's key trends. It's
also in part due to the attempted corruption of open standards and the
policies that rely on them, which has allowed proprietary software an
undeserved ascendancy. So while new businesses are able to be formed
with philosophical and ethical principles embedded in their DNA,
existing ones still can't "embrace software freedom" since that's a
capability only of intelligent individuals.