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   Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: (onepict@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 03:52:22 JST Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:

   When I started my journey in FOSS I came very much in on the Open Source side of the portmanteau.

   I've moved over to the Free Software side. The organisations that represent our communities have let us down, badly.

   As I said in mirror mirror:

   "Some of us, who were attracted to FOSS for explicitly ethical, and political reasons appear to have misunderstood what the movement was about."

   https://www.onepict.com/20250119-cobbles.html

   With the recent #OSI election shenanigans, the fairy tale of FOSS is over.

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     Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: (onepict@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 03:52:19 JST Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:

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     The OSIAID dilutes the Open Source definition and at a time when more and more public funding goes into AI. This needs to be a firmer definition.

     Especially as governments start to use Large Language models to help their systems of government to make decisions.

     Every thing needs to be open. The code, the weights and training data. These systems need to be fully auditable.

     Especially for systems that service the public.

     I'm appalled at the shenanigans with the election for the OSI board.

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     Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: (onepict@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 03:52:20 JST Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:

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     As I also said in Mirror mirror:

     "In FOSS we tell ourselves the comforting lie that what we do is ethical. Merely by writing code and releasing it under an Open Source Licence."

     We licence our code under the GPL. It's a part of the conditions of our funding, we must release our code under an open source approved licence.

     So I need that definition to be for the public benefit. For the organisation to be trustworthy.

     The OSI has lost my trust and my projects trust. Now what do we do?

     Alfred M. Szmidt repeated this.
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     Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 03:52:41 JST Alfred M. Szmidt

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     • Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

     @rysiek https://floss.social/@bkuhn/114201035037997772 is a good start @onepict

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     Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 03:52:42 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

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     @onepict oh damn. Do you have a link about these shenanigans?

     I always treated OSI with... suspicion. Felt a bit corporatey.

     Alfred M. Szmidt repeated this.
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     Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: (onepict@chaos.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Mar-2025 03:56:29 JST Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:

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     • Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

     @rysiek Bradley's summarised some links here:

     https://floss.social/@bkuhn/114195360315950230