>>> On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 2:48 PM, in message
<20070419184831.GF60825@demeter.hydra>, Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com>
wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 11:04:22AM -0400, Jim Hartley wrote:
>> I believe Bruce Perens is too tightly affiliated with the FSF. The FSF
>> is not the right group for this job, they are "Free Software Fanatics"
>> and too tightly coupled to their Philosophical agenda that all software
>> should be free. Other groups like OSI take a much more pragmatic view of
>> the issue, which is what is needed here - advocate Open Source and Open
>> Standards as a good solution, a better solution, often the best solution
>> for governments and others, but don't throw a hissy-fit if some stuff
>> isn't 100% free.
>
> You forgot some scare-quotes in there. I'll provide an edited version
> of a phrase for you:
>
> their "Philosophical" agenda that all software should be "free".
>
> OSI isn't perfect, either, but it's a much, much better choice of
> organization to get involved in lobbying for optimal results. I think
> that the best option may be to get the OSI to organize a nationwide
> association of local advocacy groups, with a person from each of the
> FSF, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, the Linux kernel developers, the Debian core
> team, a few OSI appointees, and the SLF as members of its decision
> making board. I'm pretty sure none of you have heard of the SLF, so
> feel free to ignore that one for now, but there doesn't seem to be
> anyone else filling the role that the SLF is meant to fill in open
> source software development communities at large -- thus, the reason
> I threw that one in.
>
> I'd say that anything that is unanimously *not* thrown out of the
> committee should be pursued as a goal of the organization. That is to
> say that every single member of that committee would have veto power.
> It may sound extreme to do it that way, but it's the only way to
> ensure that chances of something diabolical (from the others' point
> of view) being slipped in would be minimized.
The NCOSPR is currently the lobby that is in the federal government space advocating open source. However, NCOSPR and OSSI concentrate on federal government. Never heard of SLF, however what the NCOSPR is doing needs to be replicated down into state and local government.
JP
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