Bruce Perens rejected from license-proliferation committee.

[Bruce Perens]

The OSI board would be a good place to start.

There is corporate participation, especially through their counsel. But
tune into their mailing list and see what you can add.

    Thanks

    Bruce

James McGovern wrote:

>Tell us whom we need to contact and we will be all over this. Hopefully this
>committe has some participation from corporate America? If not, I would also
>like to volunteer my services...
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bruce Perens [mailto:bruce at perens.com]
>Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 11:46 AM
>To: license-discuss at opensource.org
>Subject: Bruce Perens rejected from license-proliferation committee.
>
>
>Folks,
>
>I've tried diplomatic approaches to this for some months, and have been
>met with something between resistance and naievete. So, it's time to
>tell you about it.
>
>Some time ago, I applied to be on the license proliferation committee. I
>eventually got a form letter from Laura Majerus saying that they had too
>many qualified people. When addressed through Mike Tiemann, Laura simply
>repeated her previous mantra.
>
>Most of you will realize that I am uniquely qualified as the main author
>of the guidelines that OSI now seeks to interpret, and someone who has
>assisted many businesses and legal professionals in working within those
>guidlines since then. Two people with experience similar to mine but
>less in duration were admitted to the committee. There are a few legal
>professionals admitted. All others admitted are extremely worthy
>individuals, and have been working very hard at this, but I can't really
>say they are more experienced.
>
>I've discussed this with a number of OSI insiders and professionals who are
>close to the problem. All said the same thing: having offered, you never
>should have been rejected.
>
>And thus, I really have to question the process.
>
>    Thanks
>
>    Bruce Perens
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