[FM Discuss] some good news (Please identify OSI)

[Lachlan Musicman]

1. Congrats/Awesome
2. Just for the record, it's actually "The Open _Society_ Institute",
not the Open Source Institute. Soros and his mob are big money.

Open Society Institute
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Society_Institute

cheers
L.

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 09:46, adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
> i dunno all of this. will update when i know more. we havent signed
> anything so keep it quiet for now :)
>
> adam
>
>
> On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 14:13 -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote:
>> Can you give us any more details?
>>
>> What part of Soros/OSI are we dealing with?
>>
>> Is this a regular grant program?
>>
>> What else are they doing with FLOSS?
>>
>> Can we announce this publicly?
>>
>> I would like to write this up for OLPC News.
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 09:20, adam hyde <adam at flossmanuals.net> wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2009-10-20 at 09:09 -0700, dwp wrote:
>> >> Hello: Before i sent this reply i googled OSI and found 13,900,000
>> >> references. Please for us newbies identify these abbreviations that
>> >> frequentlly appear in the discussions. Just picking from the top hits
>> >> OSI could be
>> >>
>> >> Open Source Institute and Soros Foundation etc. (they do have the
>> >> money!:)
>> >
>> > yep!
>> >
>> >> In any case, i will take it from the E-mails that this is good news
>> >> for support for Floss projects.
>> >>
>> >
>> > yep!
>> >
>> > adam
>> >
>> >
>> >> Regards: david
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