Did you end up asking any quesitons of the panel? I have to admit to being underwhelmed by the osa. OSDL/FSG merging will be challenging enough without these folksc onfusing things. Of course, considering what many of them consider open source....well anyhow.
<br><br>Chris<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/14/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robin 'Roblimo' Miller</b> <<a href="mailto:robin@roblimo.com">robin@roblimo.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Matthew Flaschen wrote:<br>> Robin 'Roblimo' Miller wrote:<br>><br>>> I'm sure licensing questions will be raised at the LinuxWorld Jr.<br>>> presentation. I'll be there with my video camera and lots of tape...
<br>>><br>><br>> It looks like CentricCRM couldn't wait after all. There's a story up at<br>> ZDNet (<a href="http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6159182.html">http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-6159182.html
</a>).<br><br>Also this story by one of my people:<br><a href="http://community.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/14/1155249&tid=11">http://community.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/14/1155249&tid=11</a><br><br>And tomorrow, immediately after the panel discussion re OSA, I'll be
<br>talking to some OSA principals about principles.<br><br>I had some private conversations with two of them today, and I think the<br>real truth is that they never really put a lot of thought about how<br>"open source" a company must be to join their group. I told two of their
<br>people -- and SourceForge.net dude Ross Turk also said -- that we think<br>the membership criterion should be that a company's main products or<br>services are open source, and when we say "open source," we mean open
<br>source as defined by OSI.<br><br>I have personally railed in the past against companies using "based on<br>open source" as a marketing gimmick. Microsoft can legitimately claim<br>that it has projects "based on open source," so, um...
<br><br>...anyway, more to come. May be in the form of an opinion piece. I am<br>obviously partisan here and not ashamed to say so. The story will run on<br><a href="http://Linux.com">Linux.com</a>.<br><br>Robin 'Roblimo' Miller
<br>Editor in Chief, OSTG<br><br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Open Source Programs Manager, Google Inc.<br>Google's Open Source program can be found at <a href="http://code.google.com">http://code.google.com
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