Robin Miller reported that one more open source group is coming up – Open Solutions Alliance (OSA). However, it seems that everything about it is being done under covers, even the website does not reveal anything. The founders and the members are not exactly known, it will be unveiled at the LinuxWorld OpenSolutions Summit. The general perception seems to be that this advocacy group will focus on the business use of open source applications.
It is good that open source is getting another group, but I always wonder if there is a disconnect between all the ones there. Even if it is primarily for vendors I do not think that the legal matters, the trade matters, the technology and the community should be disconnected. I think there should be more effort to form an open source ecosystem.
February 14th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
[...] Solutions Alliance has been announced and formed. The initial word was quite hushed up; the details were opened up at the OpenSolutions Summit. You can see the member list on the website [...]