Re: [Fsfe-uk] osc? who?

[Graham Seaman]

Alex Hudson wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 21:58 +0000, Graham Seaman wrote:
>  
>
> > Anyone know about the open source consortium:  
> > http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/ ?
> >
> > Given the list of 60 odd companies providing open source/free software 
> > services, is there any overlap with the AFFS? What about their 
> > certification  ('OSC Business Standard')? Anyone got this? What is it?
> >    
>
> There isn't really any overlap with the AFFS; the OSC is a group of
> companies who've agreed to attempt to collectively tender for large
> public contracts.
I meant in terms of people - surely some of those 60 companies are also 
members of the AFFS (if not, why not?).  I was also curious about their 
larger backers, if any.  I saw John Terpstra was involved; as far as I 
know (which really isn't much and may be wrong) his current agenda is 
fairly aligned with Sun's.
On the other hand I just clickede that Turo technology is in there - 
maybe MJ is the power behind the throne ;-)

> I would ignore the stuff about the business standard
> for now, it seems nascent and actually more to do with grounding a
> business in ISO9000 processes than anything else.
>
>  
Amusingly with all the standards stuff on the site, a lot seems to be 
cut-and-pasted - check the meta copyright tag :-)

Graham