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Is the Open Standards Alliance Betraying Open Source?

Posted by glynmoody on · 3 comments
Computerworld UK; By Glyn Moody
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The OSA was set up to improve interoperability between open source programs. Now it plans to work on interoperability between open source and closed source apps too: will this help or harm free software?

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How could this possibly be construed as betrayal? Good grief.
For more clicks? :)
I just read the article after reading KS and TC's comments. I was hoping for some fine point of confusion and started reading it with a slant to looking for confusion between the definitions of OSS and Free Software. I didn't find any, granted that OSA might tick off the FSF folks, but it falls within the realm of OSS defintions.

It may or may not reach OSI approved licenses, but getting a new license approved isnt as simple as saying here it is, and it meets the stated requirements, so that argument is a non starter. Especially if the anti-proliferation folks get involved in the discussion.

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