[DRAFT 3]: Charter for the Open Source Committee

Russell Nelson nelson at crynwr.com
Tue Nov 9 15:09:27 UTC 1999


Ean R . Schuessler writes:
 > In that sense, OSI has probably single handedly struck the most
 > damaging blow possible to the effort of making the Open Source term a
 > meaningful tool for the community. As to our duff, it has been busily
 > fabricating a control structure geared towards a membership oriented
 > organization.

In other words, you've created a bureaucracy.  Not only that, but
you're proud of it.  That's pretty sad (definitely speaking as an
individual here).

 > When it hasn't been doing that, it has been hosting
 > projects and contructing the second largest Linux distribution in the
 > world.

Debian created SPI, not vice-versa.

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