A Look Back At 10 Years of OSI 73
blackbearnh notes that this week marks the 10th anniversary of the Open Source Initiative. He points us to O'Reilly's ONLamp site, where Federico Biancuzzi (who frequently interviews notables in the Open Source community for O'Reilly) has a collection of interviews with some of the founders of the OSI, including Bruce Perens and Eric Raymond. "Eric Raymond: There is a pattern that one sees over and over again in failed political and religious reform movements. A charismatic founder launches the movement, attracts followers, and enjoys significant successes; then he dies or leaves or attempts to name a successor, and the movement disintegrates rapidly. One of the classic, much-studied cases is that of John Humphrey Noyes and the Oneida Community, 1848-1881. It was especially clear in that case that its succession crisis and eventual collapse was due to over-reliance on Noyes's personal leadership. At the time I co-founded OSI in 1998 I judged that FSF would very likely undergo a similar crackup if it lost RMS, and was determined to avoid that if possible for OSI."
Re:Open Systems Interconnection? 7 Layer model? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Irony? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Hey I thought OSI was surely around 10 years (Score:3, Informative)
Lo the surprise.
Re:Hey I thought OSI was surely around 10 years (Score:3, Informative)
Perhaps since 'free' is number 1 of your definition of open source, perhaps the 'FOSI'
Oh come on (Score:5, Informative)
I don't know if you are that humor-impaired, but I think you're wrong to expect that other folks would be.
Bruce