[Ground-station] OSI membership

[Bruce Perens]

Hi Sado-san,

It is good to hear from you, and I hope to get to Japan again someday. I am
copying this to Michelle Thompson. She is the current CEO of Open Research
Institute, which is an organizational member of the OSI. Michelle, Sado was
my host during a speaking trip to Japan.

I have no evidence that the failure in the recent OSI election was a
buyout. That is just an issue that we in the community have been afraid of.

    Thanks

    Bruce


On Tue, Mar 23, 2021, 7:14 PM Shuji Sado <sado at osdn.net> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> It's been a while.  How have you been?
>
> By the way, we are deeply concerned about the buyout which happened during
> the OSI board election.
>
> I only belong to license-discus ML, so I don't know much about this
> election.
> However, I have always thought that it is impossible to avoid people who
> are not in favor of
> free culture become members of OSI.  Could this be the cause of the
> incident?
>
> Just at this moment, Open Source Group Japan has been discussing whether
> we should join OSI, and
> I myself have also changed my view and now I think that all free believers
> around the world should come together at OSI.
>
> I checked the requirements for affiliate members and learned that I need a
> recommendation from an existing member.
> Could I ask you to recommend us?
>
> https://opensource.jp/en/
>
> This link leads to a page with the description of Open Source Group Japan.
> We are an organization that has been active for 20 years and has been
> releasing Japanese translations
> for open-source licenses.  We have also started managing trademarks for
> open source projects in Japan.
> In relation to that, we often provide legal supports to various projects.
>
> It is because of this reason that we acted as an intermediary when you
> visited the Japanese Patent Office.
>
> Could you kindly consider recommending us?
>
>
> --
> Shuji Sado
> Open Source Group Japan, Chairman
> sado at osdn.net
> sado at opensource.jp
>
>
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