OSI Board Addition May Bring Needed Change

“When Simon Phipps says people have been critical of the Open
Source Initiative, I’m pretty sure I’m one of the critics to which
he’s referring.

“The OSI has been one of those organizations that seemed to fall
short of its true potential, which is always a source of
frustration; you want them to succeed, and don’t understand when
things go awry. It’s particularly difficult to stand by and watch
it happen to people whom you genuinely respect, like Michael
Tiemann, Danese Cooper, and Phipps himself, who has this week has
been elected to the Board of Directors, effective April 1. They,
and other members of the OSI board, are individually very smart and
more than capable of spearheading the open source governance
body.

“The OSI, if you recall, is primarily responsible for enforcing
the Open Source Definition, the document that literally defines
what is open source software. The practical extension of this
enforcement is, in a nutshell, the OSI decides what constitutes an
open source license.”

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