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Open Source Initiative Bans Co-Founder, Eric S. Raymond, from its Mailing Lists

posted by martyb on Tuesday March 10 2020, @11:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the quite-the-coc-up dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Open Source Initiative bans co-founder, Eric S Raymond:

Last week, Eric S Raymond (often known as ESR, author of The Cathedral and the Bazaar, and co-founder of the Open Source Intiative) was banned from the Open Source Intiative[sic] (the "OSI").

Specifically, Raymond was banned from the mailing lists used to organize and communicate with the OSI.

For an organization to ban their founder from communicating with the group (such as via a mailing list) is a noteworthy move.

At a time when we have seen other founders (of multiple Free and Open Source related initiatives) pushed out of the organizations they founded (such as with Richard Stallman being compelled to resign from the Free Software Foundation, or the attempts to remove Linus Torvalds from the Linux Kernel – both of which happened within the last year) it seems worth taking a deeper look at what, specifically, is happening with the Open Source Initiative.

I don't wish to tell any of you what you should think about this significant move. As such I will simply provide as much of the relevant information as I can, show the timeline of events, and reach out to all involved parties for their points of view and comments.

The author provides links to — and quotations from — entries on the mailing list supporting this. There is also a conversation the author had with ESR. The full responses he received to his queries are posted, as well.

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  • (Score: 2, Touché) by khallow on Wednesday March 11 2020, @01:21PM (6 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 11 2020, @01:21PM (#969601) Journal
    I find it interesting that you wrote this five minutes after you wrote [soylentnews.org]:

    Everyone is being held to that standard - or to rephrase it yet again for shallow khallow's inherent limited understanding, everyone should be expected to be called out when they are hypocrites.

    Well, consider yourself called out and being held to the standards you claim to have. I get that you don't have infinite time to follow every link nor did I describe what was at my link, further selecting a quote that would reasonably lead to the impression the link wasn't about the lawsuit, but my linked story was indeed about the lawsuit.

    Even if it weren't, it's still a pretty sloppy assumption to make that I didn't read about the lawsuit.

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  • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by barbara hudson on Wednesday March 11 2020, @03:42PM (3 children)

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Wednesday March 11 2020, @03:42PM (#969664) Journal
    See my rebuttal elsewhere, shallow khallow. You provided a link that had nothing to do with the actual case, which was a woman who went to use her computer and it had been upgraded to Windows 10 without her doing anything. Paul Thurot is a long-time Microsoft shill. You're just a troll.
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    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday March 11 2020, @04:01PM (2 children)

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 11 2020, @04:01PM (#969673) Journal
      Your people have really interesting ways of saying thank you!

      • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday March 12 2020, @08:21AM (1 child)

        by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday March 12 2020, @08:21AM (#970152) Journal

        The preferred nomenclature is: "my dear and fluffy khallow". Or at least it is with me. I will always treasure that time in Cody. . .

  • (Score: 0, Redundant) by barbara hudson on Wednesday March 11 2020, @04:10PM (1 child)

    by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Wednesday March 11 2020, @04:10PM (#969676) Journal

    You're a troll. Everyone knows it. Get over it. Take your place beside pee in a cup fusty, shallow khallow.

    You obviously don't know my standards. They include total disrespect for trolls like you. Your account has all the earmarks of a troll account, same as fusty's did.

    Expect to be called out once in a while when you piss me off.

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    • (Score: 2) by kazzie on Wednesday March 11 2020, @04:43PM

      by kazzie (5309) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 11 2020, @04:43PM (#969690)

      And if anyone doesn't know it, you're being very proactive in telling them.

      I count four posts under this article so far?