[License-discuss] OSI is not a trade association

[Christine Hall]

I 100% agree. I'll point to Red Hat, SUSE, and Nextcloud as shining 
examples.

Christine Hall
Publisher & Editor
FOSS Force: Keeping tech free
http://fossforce.com

On 7/3/19 7:42 PM, VanL wrote:
> Hi Christine,
> 
> Don't paint with too broad a brush. I understand your concern - open 
> source is not a business plan! - but there are businesses and business 
> plan that are fully aligned with the goals of the community.
> 
> Thanks,
> Van
> 
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> On Wed, Jul 3, 2019, 5:43 PM Christine Hall <christine at fossforce.com 
> <mailto:christine at fossforce.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On second thought, it's not the enterprise, or enterprise users, who
>     want restrictive licenses. It's vendors/developers seeking enterprise
>     customers who want to continue calling their software open source, but
>     be able to use non open source restrictions because their business plan
>     doesn't work.
> 
>     Christine Hall
>     Publisher & Editor
>     FOSS Force: Keeping tech free
>     http://fossforce.com
> 
>     On 7/3/19 5:05 PM, Bruce Perens via License-discuss wrote:
>      > On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 2:00 PM Christine Hall
>     <christine at fossforce.com <mailto:christine at fossforce.com>
>      > <mailto:christine at fossforce.com
>     <mailto:christine at fossforce.com>>> wrote:
>      >
>      >     as long as there are permissive  licenses, the enterprise is
>     quite
>      >     happy with the way things are.
>      >
>      >
>      > Well, obviously, it's /restrictive /licenses they want from us
>     now. And
>      > they can have them from Polyform and co., we don't and can't
>     restrict
>      > anyone from using the license of their choice on their own work.
>     Just
>      > please don't call them Open Source.
>      >
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