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Comment by samj | Hacker News Reader

The OSI apparently doesn't have the mandate from its members to even work on this, let alone approve it.

The community is starting to regroup at https://discuss.opensourcedefinition.org because the OSI's own forums are now heavily censored.

I encourage you to join the discussion about the future of Open Source, the first option being to keep everything as is.

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For reference, this is the OSI Forum mentioned: https://discuss.opensource.org

Didn't personally know they even had one. ;)

Heh... HN has always been full of massive proponents of the OSI, with people staunchly claiming any software under a license that isn't OSI-approved isn't 'real open source'.

Now we're seeing that maybe putting all that trust and responsibility in one entity wasn't such a great idea.

We still have the FSF and free software, both predating "open source" and the OSI.

OSD is widely accepted in the community and I don't expect that to change regardless of what happens with AI definitions.

Plus we still have FSF's definition and DFSG.

OSI must defend the open source trademark. Otherwise the community loses everything.

The legal system in the US doesn't provide them any other options but to act.

They don’t have a US trademark on “open source”. Their trademarks are on “open source initiative” and “open source initiative approved license”.

Hahaha… very open. Yeah, no one saw this coming.

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