I was pleased to be able to send OSI’s sign-on to the civil society letter protesting the bad laws being considered by the US legislature at present. You can read more about it on my OSI blog.
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☞ Google Fixes WebM Licence
Posted on June 4, 2010 by Simon Phipps
I’m delighted to say that Google has responded and fixed the licence for WebM so that they don’t need to submit it to OSI any more – they are now just using a BSD licence with a separate patent grant. Read more over on my ComputerWorldUK blog.
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✍ OSI Opposes BBC DRM
Posted on March 25, 2010 by Simon Phipps
✍ Software Freedom Has A Posse
Posted on March 12, 2010 by Simon Phipps
OSfA takes effective action on behalf of America’s open source communities
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✍ Change at OSI
Posted on March 11, 2010 by Simon Phipps
§ I gather that the Board of Directors of the Open Source Initiative met on Sunday to elect the board for their 2010-11 financial year. I am both honoured and delighted to discover that they have elected me as a Director, with effect from April 1st. That’s an auspicious date . One or two friends [...]
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☞ Fighting For Freedom
Posted on March 5, 2010 by Simon Phipps
The OSI Categorically Rejects IIPA’s special pleadings against Open Source Official statement from OSI denouncing the IIPA’s warped view of the world that says developing nations should not be mandating open source while the US states and federal agencies get right along with the same thing. Very welcome statement that I know we’ll see Open [...]
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