On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 8:53 AM Russell Nelson <nel...@crynwr.com> wrote:
> So is the OSI brand is worthless? > Let's not jump to Conclusions here; it's a long swim back to the mainland Kingdom of Wisdom. Of course a certification is not worthless, but not having one is not a sign of lacking the properties being certified. UL certification is very important, but lack of it does not mean your product is unsafe. It may be totally safe but either not yet certified or without a certification methodology. For OSI the effect is even stronger than for UL. Every time OSI denies certification on grounds other than non-conformance to the OSD (such as redundancy, lack of templatification, etc.), it implicitly concedes that OSI Certified (tm) and open source are not the same thing. (While I am at it, there is also a tendency to conflate open source with open development. Some of my software is under an open source license but is not open-developed: that is, I accept no patches for it, though I do publish it. When people complain of this policy, I tell them that the code is open source and they are free to make and maintain their own forks. I consider myself part of the community nevertheless.) > No better than you, me, or anyone else? I disagree with that. We have a > reputation that we stand behind. OSI certification is more important than > any other entity's claim of open-source-ness. > Of course. But that does not delegitimate such claims. John Cowan http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan co...@ccil.org Kill Gorgun! Kill orc-folk! No other words please Wild Men. Drive away bad air and darkness with bright iron! --Ghan-buri-Ghan
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