When I saw this title, the first thing I thought was that it referred to the OSI: "Open mouths and closed minds in open source". There are way, way too many self-aggrandizing blow-hards in Open Source, who actually don't do anything except keep their minds closed and mouths open.
The OSI is a bunch of hypocrites. When is the closed, private OSI going to practice what they preach and adopt an open governance model? Tell us, who elected the OSI board? Quoting Mark Hinkle, People need to remind themselves "that no matter what the users, vendors, or ... want the [OSI] board has no obligation to act based on their input." Basically, the OSI is accountable to no one:
http://socializedsoftware.com/2008/03/20/is-the-open-source-brand-in-the-right-hands/
Matthew Aslett similarly understands the closed Open Source Initiative:
http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2008/04/16/in-the-osi-board-we-trust/
Oracle has done the Open Source community a favor by killing OpenSolaris. It was a total waste of time, distracting the occasional developer who didn't know better from focusing on Linux. Now the people who were wasting their time on OpenSolaris will hopefully contribute their development time to Linux.
Now if Oracle would just find a way to kill the closed OSI so we wouldn't have the irrelevant ramblings of a few self-appointed egotistical blow-hards that continue to make the Open Source community look like a bunch of amateurs. Maybe in the next round of OSI elections we can all vote out the OSI board. Oh wait, they don't have open elections. Never mind.
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