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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.
(Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Thursday March 12 2020, @01:59AM
I gave the exact search phrase "Woman wins $10,000 from Microsoft" that will bring up the relevant links as the first 10 results, and more on the following results pages.
Unlike the blog, which has no visible links to ESR's posts because the html is screwed up, bad css, poor colour scheme, etc ... take your pick.
A really bad blog post that shouldn't have made the front page because it's pretty much zero content. I'll sum it up/
1. ESR abandons project (so what else is new? Seriously, this is his modus operandi);
2. 20 years later all butt-hurt that changes seem to be in the making. Expresses phony outrage;
3. Anonymous submission referring to badly written blog.
Conclusion: The submission was blog spam.
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