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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: 3, Interesting) by Bot on Wednesday March 11 2020, @02:10PM (1 child)

    by Bot (3902) on Wednesday March 11 2020, @02:10PM (#969618) Journal

    The reason for banning esr is not relevant.
    Because it's too much of a coincidence for 3 free software related orgs to have an attempt of beheading in an year. And let's not forget python founder going away, ian of debian murdered and debian going from software in the public interest to a do-ocracy, which is newspeak for infiltratocracy because it's quite easy to find hard working volunteers among people getting paid to infiltrate and sow discord or EEE.

    Wasn't ESR the guy to publish this allegedly from a source he trusted?

    [I]f you are any kind of open-source leader or senior figure who is male, do not be alone with any female, ever, at a technical conference. Try to avoid even being alone, ever, because there is a chance that a “women in tech” advocacy group is going to try to collect your scalp.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by pe1rxq on Wednesday March 11 2020, @03:25PM

    by pe1rxq (844) on Wednesday March 11 2020, @03:25PM (#969661) Homepage

    Can you call it a beheading if the head was already gone for 20 years? And if you followed ESR a bit over the years you could argue that there were a few loose screws before that already....