[tei-council] Opensource.org

[Dan O'Donnell]

It is exactly this kind of opinion I was hoping to get! Playing the 
devil's advocate for a second... what about something like the W3C? They 
are now attaching it to at least some of their pages.

Laurent? What's your opinion, especially vis a vis profiling ourselves 
as a pseudo standard?

-dan

Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> Since we're not primarily in the FOSS business
> (ie we are not really making software), I am not
> sure it'd be helpful to brand ourselves with OSI. Anything
> which lessened our appeal as a pseudo-standard would
> be bad news, and there is always the chance that someone
> important could be put off by the link.
>
> Just a view; I could be convinced otherwise, probably.
> -- 
> Sebastian


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