The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is an organization dedicated to promoting open source software. The organization was founded in February 1998, by Bruce Perens and Eric S. Raymond, prompted by Netscape Communications Corporation publishing the source code for its flagship Netscape Communicator product. Later, in August 1998 the organization added a board of directors. The OSI is the steward of the Open Source Definition (OSD) and part of its function is to review and approve licenses conforming to the OSD. The OSI maintains a list of the most commonly used open licenses for software.
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| - The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is an organization dedicated to promoting open source software. The organization was founded in February 1998, by Bruce Perens and Eric S. Raymond, prompted by Netscape Communications Corporation publishing the source code for its flagship Netscape Communicator product. Later, in August 1998 the organization added a board of directors. The OSI is the steward of the Open Source Definition (OSD) and part of its function is to review and approve licenses conforming to the OSD. The OSI maintains a list of the most commonly used open licenses for software.
- The organization was founded in February 1998, by Bruce Perens and Eric S. Raymond, when Netscape Communications Corporation published the source code for its flagship Netscape Communicator product as free software due to lowering profit margins and competition with Microsoft's Internet Explorer software. Raymond was president from its founding until February 2005; Russ Nelson replaced him for one month, but after some controversy he resigned and Michael Tiemann became interim president.
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| - The organization was founded in February 1998, by Bruce Perens and Eric S. Raymond, when Netscape Communications Corporation published the source code for its flagship Netscape Communicator product as free software due to lowering profit margins and competition with Microsoft's Internet Explorer software. Raymond was president from its founding until February 2005; Russ Nelson replaced him for one month, but after some controversy he resigned and Michael Tiemann became interim president. The phrase 'open source initiative' is also used by the ObjectWeb consortium to differentiate market-aware endeavors from open source projects. An example of an open source initiative is the ESB initiative incepted by ObjectWeb in June 2004.
- The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is an organization dedicated to promoting open source software. The organization was founded in February 1998, by Bruce Perens and Eric S. Raymond, prompted by Netscape Communications Corporation publishing the source code for its flagship Netscape Communicator product. Later, in August 1998 the organization added a board of directors. The OSI is the steward of the Open Source Definition (OSD) and part of its function is to review and approve licenses conforming to the OSD. The OSI maintains a list of the most commonly used open licenses for software.
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