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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 14 2020, @12:56AM
The system was SIGNED OFF with either the 2 or 3 sensor variant. The changes to the 1 sensor system happened AFTER the FAA inspection and testing of the system but before it was installed into the planes. Somehow the FAA didn't manage to catch this change and the planes were able to ship with the 1 sensor, 2nd optional system without requiring a comprehensive (and expensive!) review of the changes. One of the reasons systems were so slow to change in the past was that ANY modification to the system no matter how small would require the retesting of the entire module/system as well as cascading those tests to any larger systems it was involved in. Testing that would prove both time consuming on the order of years, and expensive to implement. The 'streamlining' that happened with the FAA helped eliminate much of this re-testing and oversight and directly lead to the situations that allowed this homicidal negligence to happen.