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The ugly details have surfaced regarding the quick departure of the last OSI president. He is accused of being a racist.
The president of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) has been asked to leave his job, less than a month after taking on the post, for allegedly racist posts.
Russ Nelson was met with a unanimous board decision that he had to go for displaying a lack of judgement over a series of personal blogs entries that many felt were racist. His place has been temporarily filled by Red Hat vice president Michael Tiemann.
Nelson will remain a member of the licensing committee and will continue to serve on the OSI board. "OSI's mission is very important to me," Nelson said in a statement. "My hope is that the community can continue its focus on working together to advance the integration of open source software into the wider society."
Nelson is known for stirring up controversy in his posts to Web sites such as Slashdot.org and his own weblog, and he indicated that he was unprepared to deal with the fallout from such comments as head of the OSI.
"I don't like politics, and it's become evident in recent weeks that OSI's role has rapidly become much more political," Nelson said in a blog entry announcing his departure. "I am not ready for the position of president; certainly not by training and perhaps not even by temperament. The entire board is unanimous in agreeing that we need a president with more political savvy than I." Full story from LinuxWorld
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