The sudden upheaval at the FSF...

Bill Ricker bill.n1vux at gmail.com
Wed Sep 18 16:23:51 EDT 2019


On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 3:18 PM Greg Rundlett (freephile) <
greg at freephile.com> wrote:

> The FOSS community has long needed a better spokesperson and maybe with
> luck we'll find who that person is.
>

The platform for that better spokesperson may well be OSI, no the other
one, the Open Source Initiative; *their* problematic original board member
has stepped down from the board long since, and they have good
gender-balance on the board now. https://opensource.org/docs/board-annotated
And they have a bunch of good people in their "stable."  To name but two,
Simon Phipps on their Board and V.M. "Vickie" Brasseur who sometimes writes
for their blog/eMagazine are spokespeople I like to hear from. That they've
rotated board members early and often is probably good too.

(The irony is that OSI was ESR's riposte to RMS's FSF. Perhaps with both
ESR and RMS out of OSI and FSF leadership, the two groups can work more
together and less dogmatic Libre vs Gratis shouting.)
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