On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 02:41:30PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > In http://www.spi-inc.org/corporate/minutes/20010516 there are the following > statements from Ean Schuessler: > > There are two ways we can go with this Open Source thing. We can turn > the domains over to OSI, which I believe is a bad idea for reasons I > think I've made relatively clear both in email and in the IRC > discussion. Or we can form a committee to solicit assistance from the > community and try to turn the domains into a useful tool for insuring > that the definition of Free Software stays consistent. I think that > protecting the meaning of Free Software (even when it is called Open > Source) is well defined in our charter and I think our path of action > here should be clear. > > [...] > > Ean wanted people to join a new Open Source committee to discuss these > issues. His main personal concern is that a fork between the terms Free > Software and Open Source is not acceptable. A decision is made to form > the OS committee under lead of Ean and let them work on the issue. > > So, basically, if you want to change the official Debian stance on the > issue, and therefore the web page, you need to talk to someone else than > debian-www.
Is Ean's stance the official Debian stance? In the [...] part that you omit it says: Wichert thought that trying to remain in control over opensource is not going to win us anything; the trademark has been lost already and the domain isn't all that useful and using it to control OSI will only be a PR nightmare. Branden suggested turning the domains over, but accompanying it with an open letter decrying OSI's habit of whoring themselves out to any license with enough commercial backing. Things have changed a lot since 1998 when Bruce Perens launched the Open Source movement based on the DFSG; and some web pages (like the one I was criticizing) have not been updated accordingly. Jaime
