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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 Sunday March 15 2020, @04:33PM
In normal human interaction, when someone makes a statement, if the other person chooses not to believe it, it's not up to the person making it to prove anything. That's my stance online as well now, because there are too many bunfights over "you said it - now prove it" and "your citation is biased" and other stupidity.
If I tell someone that all cruise ships with 500 or more passengers are banned from all ports in the country, and they choose not to believe it, how is that my problem? Hint: it's not. If someone is heading to an NHL game and I tell them the season has been suspended so don't bother going, it's not up to me to "prove" it. They're free not to believe me.
IOW, my stance is the same as people in the real world. I am not responsible either for your beliefs or your education or your inability to find things. That things are, for some stupid reason. different on the Internet is an example of how dysfunctional the Internet makes people, same as smartphones and social media turn people into zombies.
People with think what they want to think. Look at all the Trumpsters who continue to believe the idiot-in-chief. "There are only 15 cases of the virus, and they will soon be gone. Anyone who wants can get tested. It's a conspiracy by the Democrats." You will never convince them otherwise, and it's not your problem to do so.
I'm not all that invested in the online world - it's more for relieving boredom than anything else. It will never change my life. I take it for what it is. I think it would be nice if people could put the Internet in what I consider a more rational perspective, but you're free to do what you want.
Just that you cannot find any error in my proposition, that it's not my job to find shit of other people, and they're free to believe what they want to as a (very minor, even minuscule) consequence.
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