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OSI leadership changes again
News Michael Tiemann, vice-president of open source affairs at Linux seller Red Hat and an OSI board member, has taken over from Russell Nelson as president pro tem, Red Hat and Nelson confirmed on Friday.
[March 7, 2005, 10:50]
OSI mulls changes to definition of open source
News The OSI is the organisation that grants official open source status to licenses that meet its 10-point open source definition. Nelson, who took the OSI helm from co-founder Eric Raymond in February, proposed adding three new requirements to that...
[March 3, 2005, 8:05]
OSI targets licence cull
News Sam Greenblatt, a member of board of Open Source Development Labs (OSDL) -- which is working with OSI on the issue -- and senior vice-president at Computer Associates International in charge of Linux strategy, told ZDNet UK sister site CNET News...
[February 18, 2005, 10:25]
Open System Interconnection (OSI) Protocols
White Papers The Open System Interconnection (OSI) protocol suite is comprised of numerous standard protocols that are based on the OSI reference model.The OSI specifications were conceived and implemented by two international standards organizations: the...
[August 16, 2003, 1:31]
OSI version?
Talkback "In future, Brown hopes to repeat the test to see if the open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, conforms with the Open Source Initiative (OSI) version of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) document standard — ISO/IEC 26300.
[April 21, 2008, 19:29]
OSI outlines licence cull plans
News The Open Source Initiative (OSI) has begun an effort to pare down the number of open source licences in widespread use. The OSI, a group that bestows official open source status on licences, will promote a small number of licences as preferred...
[April 7, 2005, 9:20]
OSI president steps aside
News Raymond, one of the most visible and influential members of the open source community, will continue to do outreach and "ambassadorial" work for the OSI, the organisation that certifies open source licences.
[February 2, 2005, 12:55]
Sun's open source licence wins final OSI approval
News OSI's board approved the CDDL on Friday, board member Russ Nelson said. Sun has said it will release Solaris under an OSI-approved open source licence by the end of January. Official open source approval also carries another benefit: IBM said last...
[January 19, 2005, 15:10]
SAS Delivers SAS Enterprise BI Server to OSI Pharmaceuticals
White Papers OSI Pharmaceuticals Inc.a leading biotechnology company primarily focused on discovering, developing and commercializing high-quality oncology products for cancer patients worldwide, has selected the SAS9 Enterprise BI Server to prepare detailed...
[November 17, 2006, 0:00]
Solaris licence gets OSI approval
News The recommendation still must be approved by OSI's board, Nelson added. The Open Source Initiative's licence approval committee has given a vote of support to Sun's licence. In late December, the committee recommended that Sun's Community...
[January 5, 2005, 11:35]
Understanding the OSI 7 Layer Model
White Papers This document provides a full length explanation of the OSI 7 layer model including the role of each layer and of the stack. The OSI model is a way of describing how different applications and protocols interact on network-aware devices.
[August 14, 2009, 5:26]
Avoiding IP Fragmentation at the Transport Layer of the OSI Reference Model
White Papers There are different possibilities regarding the OSI model layers to implement logic for avoiding fragmentation. The heterogeneous nature of the Internet communications is transparent for the end user.
[December 27, 2007, 0:01]
Avoiding the IP Fragmentation Process at the Application Layer of the OSI Reference Model
White Papers There are different possibilities regarding the OSI model layers to implement logic for avoiding fragmentation. The modern recommendations regarding the IP fragmentation process is to avoid it. The present study describes some considerations about...
[December 27, 2007, 0:01]
My apologies - that should have read ISO, not OSI
Talkback ISO publishes the ODF format, and OSI doesn't as you rightly point out. Thanks!
[April 22, 2008, 16:48]
Cisco Network Solutions for the Telco DCN: SONET/SDH OSI Environments
White Papers This paper is directed to Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs), incumbent Local ExChange Carriers (ILECs), and Post, Telephone and Telegraphs (PTTs), collectively referred to as telcos (short for telephone companies).
[June 12, 2008, 1:01]
MCSE PREP: Data Networking
Downloads Features:Master Networking, LAN, WAN, OSI, IEEE''''''''s 802.2 and 802.3 and many more in depth topics when and where you want! YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO define and understand Networking, LAN and WAN YOU WILL...
[July 8, 2008, 8:00]
MCSE PREP: Data Networking
Downloads Features:Master Networking, LAN, WAN, OSI, IEEE's 802.2 and 802.3 and many more in depth topics when and where you want! YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO define and understand Networking, LAN and WAN YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO get the most out of the OSI...
[March 18, 2002, 6:00]
Not Open Source
Talkback the SugarCRM Public License (SPL) is not mentioned on the site of the OSI [www.opensource.org] which is the keepsake of all true open source licenses. To be approved by OSI you must admit your license to public scrutiny.
[March 12, 2007, 14:05]
In fact it's almost an opposite case
Talkback They're both failures of the standards process, but OSI used masses of public money to try and build something vendor-independent; OOXML is a massive effort by a vendor to get its specification blessed.
[April 1, 2008, 11:04]
Intel cans its open source licence
News Intel confirmed on Thursday that it has asked the Open Source Initiative (OSI) to remove its open source licence from future use as an approved OSI licence. McCoy Smith, an Intel attorney, raised this issue on an OSI mailing list earlier this week.
[March 31, 2005, 15:25]
