Re: [Fsfe-uk] osc? who?

[Alex Hudson]

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 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.

http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?NewsID=2707 might be a
better story, the Slashdot one seems obsessed with quality standards for
some reason.

Cheers,

Alex.