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Simon built a short slideshow for InfoWorld with some of the highlights of the first 20 years of open source. Take a look here.
20th Anniversary Slideshow
This article on the Open Education Consortium’s Year of Open site highlights his views on software freedom.
Open Education Consortium
You’ll recall Simon was re-elected to the OSI Board after a year’s absence to satisfy term limits. Following the resignation of the excellent Allison Randal to focus on her PhD, he has now been re-elected as OSI President by the Board. More details can be found in Allison’s article.
Simon’s article explaining why the Facebook license combo used for React.js and much more is a problem was published by the Red Hat OpenSource.Com site today. Because our articles are supported by Patreon Patrons and not reliant on artificial scarcity to pay the bills, we were able to offer Red Hat the article in response to the one by Facebook’s outside counsel yesterday. A win for the patronage economy!
My recent article has been translated into Italian courtesy of Italo Vignoli.
Tradotto e adattato alla lingua italiana in alcuni passaggi con il consenso dell’autore.
www.italovignoli.com/licenza-gpl-vero-declino/
Licenza GPL, è Vero Declino?
The results are in, and effective April 1st (yes!) Simon has been elected back to the OSI Board by the Affiliates after a year off due to term limits. His platform statement is here.
OSI Election
It’s The Daylight Twilight Zone again! Expect the unexpected…
If you, like us, have a mix of meetings with European and US residents, the next two weeks will inevitably involve some mis-timed meetings since the USA just started daylight savings time and Europe won’t do that until March 27th. One tip is to set an event in your calendar (or, better, a shared events calendar, which is what we use) marked “DST Twilight Zone” as a reminder that peculiar things are going to happen!
