The Halloween Documents are available again
<p>For all those who have been asking, the Halloween Documents are<br />
<a href="http://catb.org/~esr/halloween/">available on my website</a>.</p>
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<p>They were removed from the Open Source Initiative website, against my advice, a couple of weeks back.<br />
Having studied the history of other advocacy organizations and seen the traps they fall into, I specifically designed OSI not to be a founder-centered cult of personality; I think OSI&#8217;s decision to distance itself from the documents in order to look more &#8220;professional&#8221; was a mistake, but the open-source community is healthier because they had the power to make that mistake.</p>
<p>And for those of you who questioned the timing: the decision was made in February 2005, months before<br />
Microsoft started making kissy-face noises in OSI&#8217;s direction.  (Yeah, you can tell how much I think<br />
<em>that&#8217;s</em> going to mean in the longer run.)</p>
