opensource.org
Open Source Initiative
Who runs Open Source Initiative, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest open source advocacy alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Apache Software Foundation
Measured from Open Source Initiative’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Open Source Initiative01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Open Source Initiative
Open Source Initiative opensource.org
The steward of the Open Source Definition, setting the foundation for the Open Source Software ecosystem.
Wikidata: non-profit organization promoting open-source software
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Open Source Initiative tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
None of the 20 alternatives below has fewer; 12 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on Open Source Initiative’s homepage.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Open Source Initiative
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Open Source Initiative, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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Welcome to The Apache Software Foundation | Apache Software Foundation
American nonprofit open-source software community
Very close - 02
Linux Foundation - Decentralized innovation, built with trust
Helping open technology projects build world class open source software, communities and companies.
Very close - 03
Open Source Pledge
Open Source software powers the world, but who supports the maintainers? We do.
Very close - 04
Software Freedom Conservancy
The Software Freedom Conservancy provides a non-profit home and services to Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects.
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Front Page — Free Software Foundation — working together for free software
organization supporting the free software movement
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OpenInfra Foundation: We build communities who write software that runs in production - OpenInfra Foundation
The OpenInfra Foundation is an open source foundation supporting a global community of 110,000 individuals to build and operate open infrastructure software.
Very close - 07
Eclipse Foundation | Powering Open Innovation
The Eclipse Foundation hosts 450+ open source projects with vendor-neutral governance, enabling global collaboration in automotive, IoT, cloud, and emerging …
Very close - 08
Building tools for shared knowledge - Creative Commons
family of public copyright licenses for allowing free use of a work
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Open Source Cloud Computing Infrastructure - OpenStack
Deployed by thousands. Proven production at scale. OpenStack is a set of software components that provide common services for cloud infrastructure.
Close - 10
TYPO3 Project and Governance — Democratic Open Source - TYPO3 Project
The TYPO3 project is a volunteer community backed by a not-for-profit member association, and a fully-owned service company.
Very close - 11
Liberapay
We help you fund the creators and projects you appreciate.
Very close - 12
MariaDB Foundation - MariaDB.org
database management system, relational, open source, community developed fork of MySQL
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The Linux Kernel Archives
Unix-like operating system kernel, basis for all Linux operating systems
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Joomla Content Management System (CMS) - try it! It's free!
Joomla! is the mobile-ready and user-friendly way to build your website. Choose from thousands of features and designs. Joomla! is free and open source.
Very close - 15
The FreeBSD Project
free Unix-like operating system
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Fight for the Future
Who are we? We are a group of artists, engineers, activists, and technologists who have been behind the largest online protests in human history, channeling Internet outrage into political power to win public interest victories previously thought to be impossible. We fight for a future where technology is a force for liberation— not oppression. Battle […]
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OSF
tools that make open science practice easier
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Home - OpenSearch
OpenSearch is a community-driven, Apache 2.0-licensed open source search and analytics suite that makes it easy to ingest, search, visualize, and analyze data.
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Leading the future of open science publishing - PLOS
Discover how we are transforming scholarly publishing with a mission-driven commitment to open science, research integrity, and innovation that benefits researchers, institutions, and society worldwide.
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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Open Source Initiative’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Open Source Initiative uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Open Source Initiative adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 8 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 45 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Open Source Initiative’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
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- CMS
- WordPress page source: /wp-content/
- JavaScript libraries
- jQuery asset https://c0.wp.com/c/7.1.4/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5630baaaaa0f28e-HAM
- unpkg asset https://unpkg.com/swiper@11/swiper-bundle.min.js?ver=1793893275
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS arturo.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=RKlvCAeipVgUFwSUrhNl0EvsEj2oq-LAYVvwCB69lIM
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 16/20
- Cloudflare 8/20
- Cloudflare DNS 8/20
- PHP 8/20
- jQuery 7/20
- Google Workspace 7/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on opensource.org 6/20
- nginx · not on opensource.org 6/20
- WordPress 6/20
- Font Awesome · not on opensource.org 5/20
- Google Fonts · not on opensource.org 5/20
- SendGrid · not on opensource.org 5/20
- HubSpot · not on opensource.org 4/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on opensource.org 3/20
- Bootstrap · not on opensource.org 3/20
- Fastly · not on opensource.org 3/20