Comments on: Open-source leader steps aside at industry group

Eric Raymond, one of the most influential members of the open-source community, leaves his post as president of OSI.

[Dachi]

ESR is an extremist

ESR believes any license that is not 100% open source is bad, and that all companies should use all OSS no matter how much better the commercial alternitave be. In the next breath ESR also believes it should be a crime to use OSS in proprietary hardware solutions like routers/media centers/pda's/cell phones etc.

Writing your own closed source code to run on OSS is also wrong.

I can see why a group trying to aquire partners would be looking for a new figurehead.

[katamari]

Agreed.

You know, it teally should have been named "The Catheter and the Bizarre"...

I'm glad to see esr stepping down responsibly (I do agree with his statement that a good leader knows when it's time to step down from a position), but I'd be happier to see him stop toting his "MUST BE 100% OPEN SOURCE" attitude.

Leave that one for Stallman...

[tharcod]

Redhat is a good choice, too

To build industrial partners, Redhat is an excellent choice. They contribute open source (cygwin, Fedorah, etc.), while they provide closed source software with their distribution as well.

[hipparchus2001]

Eric's been wanting to hand this job over to someone for over 5 years

So much for former posters' ridiculous comments.
Eric Raymond is hardly extreme. Who are you guys posting saying that he is? Are YOU people who write and distribute open source software?

No?

Then your comments are worthless.