OSI and GNOME (and Microsoft Bribes)


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The year of change for the Open Source Initiative [Ed: OSI admits that its paid membership decreased this past year; so OSI uses a fictional concept of membership; OSI is passing money to Microsoft (ClearlyDefined) and is thus partly a Microsoft front group, promoting proprietary software (GitHub)]
Three organizations joined our Affiliate membership program and we also served as a fiscal sponsor for SeaGL and ClearlyDefined.
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GNOME Is the Winner of Microsoft’s FOSS Fund for May 2022 [Ed: GNOME was already corrupted well before this]
Microsoft’s FOSS Fund program provides $10,000 to sponsor open source projects. For May, the award will go to GNOME.
Microsoft has been working hard in recent years to dispel the notion that the company is an enemy of open source. Occasionally, though, some actions contradict this, but these are exceptions to the overall rule.
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