“A new open source advocacy group, the Open Solutions Alliance
(OSA), is scheduled to debut February 15 at the upcoming LinuxWorld
OpenSolutions Summit in New York. But unlike most open source
software launches and even open source association beginnings, OSA
founders are unwilling to be quoted by name about their plans
before their formal launch. Instead, they are only speaking to
media representatives grudgingly, ‘on background,’ without
attribution. The reason for this, says an OSA insider Linux.com
interviewed by telephone on Friday, February 3, is that they ‘don’t
want to ruffle feathers of people we’re still talking to about
joining.’“SourceForge.net, owned by Linux.com parent OSTG, may end up as
an OSA media partner, but not even SourceForge.net representatives
were able to shed any light on the group’s operations, funding, and
expectations…”
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