[PROPOSAL] Open Source certification

Paul Crowley paul at hedonism.demon.co.uk
Sat May 15 18:07:53 UTC 1999


Richard Bullington <rbulling at microstate.com> writes:
> > Been there, done that, it wasn't worth it.  Ask the SPI board for the
> > URL to the results of the community consultation performed last year
> > (I don't know the URL).  Basically the results were "SPI looks like a
> > bunch of idiots", "OSI looks like a bunch of idiots", and "SPI and OSI
> > look like a bunch of idiots".
> 
> I find it interesting that you've seen this, yet the "open" SPI hasn't
> published the results of this consultation as they promised.
> 
> I sure hope that SPI updats their web pages soon, and at the very least
> removes the invitation to comment on the trademark dispute
> <http://www.spi-inc.org/news/1998/19981124>.  It would be a courtesy to
> the public whoose coments SPI solicited to publish the comments, or at
> least a summary, even if it is "People thought the dispute was damaging.
> They disagreed about what we should do." 

There's been no progress on this so far; the latest news on the SPI
web pages is still an invitation to consult.  Is anyone here able to
sort this out?  If not, does anyone know who can sort it out?
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