Russ, thanks for clarifying this point as one of OSI's leaders.
Russell Nelson wrote at 19:32 (PDT) on Friday:
> We [speaking for OSI] don't criticize people for producing proprietary
> software.
Various OSI leaders have indicated that they agree that proprietary software
is harmful over the year
[Disclaimer: the statements below reflect the best of our recollection, but
we can't guarantee that our memory of events that are in some cases 30 or
more years in the past are accurate. It is only because of Bradley Kuhn's
judgmental and misleading posting that we want to respond.]
On 10/27/
On 10/27/23 13:06, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:
> FWIW, I can confirm Larry Rosen's suggestion that indeed L. Peter Deutsch and
> Aladdin Ghostscript likely invented the manipulative marketing approach of
> pre-announcing that proprietary software might someday be FOSS and/or making
> semi-binding public
