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Open Source Initiative

Who runs Open Source Initiative, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest open source advocacy alternatives.

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01 · 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.

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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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  1. 01
    Apache Software Foundation apache.org Top 1K English 1 tracker

    Welcome to The Apache Software Foundation | Apache Software Foundation

    American nonprofit open-source software community

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  2. 02
    Open Source Pledge opensourcepledge.com English No trackers

    Open Source Pledge

    Open Source software powers the world, but who supports the maintainers? We do.

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  3. 03
    Software Freedom Conservancy sfconservancy.org English No trackers

    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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  4. 04
    fsf.org English 1 tracker

    Front Page — Free Software Foundation — working together for free software

    organization supporting the free software movement

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  5. 05
    OpenInfra Foundation openinfra.dev English 3 trackers

    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.

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  6. 06
    Eclipse Foundation eclipse.org Top 10K English 3 trackers

    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 …

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  7. 07
    Creative Commons creativecommons.org Top 1K English 1 tracker

    Building tools for shared knowledge - Creative Commons

    family of public copyright licenses for allowing free use of a work

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  8. 08
    OpenStack openstack.org English No trackers

    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.

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  9. 09
    TYPO3 typo3.org English 1 tracker

    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.

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  10. 10
    Liberapay liberapay.com English No trackers

    Liberapay

    We help you fund the creators and projects you appreciate.

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  11. 11
    MariaDB mariadb.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    MariaDB Foundation - MariaDB.org

    database management system, relational, open source, community developed fork of MySQL

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  12. 12
    Linux kernel kernel.org Top 10K English No trackers

    The Linux Kernel Archives

    Unix-like operating system kernel, basis for all Linux operating systems

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  13. 13
    Joomla joomla.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    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.

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  14. 14
    FreeBSD freebsd.org Top 10K English No trackers

    The FreeBSD Project

    free Unix-like operating system

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  15. 15
    Fight for the Future fightforthefuture.org English No trackers

    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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  16. 16
    OSF osf.io Top 10K English 1 tracker

    OSF

    tools that make open science practice easier

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  17. 17
    OpenSearch opensearch.org English 2 trackers

    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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  18. 18
    PLOS plos.org Top 10K English 2 trackers

    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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  19. 19
    NetBSD netbsd.org English No trackers

    The NetBSD Project

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  20. 20
    Internet Society internetsociety.org English 1 tracker

    Internet Society: The Internet is for Everyone - Internet Society

    The Internet Society is a global charity working to close the digital divide and advocate for a secure and open Internet that people can trust.

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04 · 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
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Vector
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Query
23 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.

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