Re: [Fsfe-uk] osc? who?

[MJ Ray]

On 2004-11-29 23:32:30 +0000 Graham Seaman <address@hidden> 
wrote:

> On the other hand I just clickede that Turo technology is in there - 
> maybe MJ 
> is the power behind the throne ;-)

Actually, the turuloj wanted more information about the project and 
haven't sent in any paperwork as far as I know. I think we wanted to 
know who the other partners would be, what our liability would be and 
how direction would be decided. We got an answer on the direction when 
they announced an executive board including some people we usually 
disagree with. The list of members on the web site is interesting, but 
we wonder how many are really members.

We've not heard anything about OSC for a while, but aren't 
particularly concerned about getting ourselves out of or into it. Turo 
Technology is definitely not an active member at present. The text on 
our entry is a reworded rip from our web site (for we do not talk 
about "Open Source"). We're doing very nicely thank you from local 
public-sector projects and aren't worried about London-based national 
bids just now.

It is quite interesting to hear opinions about other people involved 
in the consortium, though. I'm surprised that the web site hasn't been 
criticised more strongly here for statements like "With Open Source 
software there are no licences to track" which really don't help 
understanding of free software at all. Even though I disagree with 
some of it, I'm surprised they didn't look to somewhere like OSS-Watch 
for quality-controlled text.

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