Talk:Open Society Institute

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Moved here from article, highly POV:

Despite the adjective open and its encouragement of computer usage, the OSI does not use transparent, consensus style decision making methods as are normally used in linux, wikipedia and indymedia.

-- Viajero 14:54, 14 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Could the forcibly shut down part be elaborated?

[edit] Definitions of open and democratic

Soros opponents accuse him of being anti-democratic. Let's collaborate on writing about these accusations. To be fair, let's be sure not to exclude anything his supporters say about openness or democracy. Perhaps they two sides are using different Definitions of democracy. --Wing Nut 14:51, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

If you really are serious about wanting to write about these accusations, let's quote the Investor's Business Daily's editorial, The Soros Threat To Democracy. Asteriks 13:00, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] internal link error?

Trying to click on a link as below: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Worldwide_Initiatives_for_Grantmaker_Support&action=edit

at the page link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Society_Institute#See_also

but does not open - suspect because of the bit that reads &action=edit ?

thanks, jason avaiki 10:44, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Needs controversy section

Hi. I am not an expert on OSI. I'm probably not going to edit here. But an observation I have made is this article looks nearly totally absent of any controversy, except for one external link. It's really odd -- other wiki pages pages on such organizations have such controversy sections, whatever they may be named. But on this page such a section is strangely absent. Now I'm just looking at this as one slice in time so maybe it had one once and it was recently cut. Who knows. Anyway, that's my opinion, and I think a controversy section is warranted. According to that one external link to the IBD editorial, OSI is secretive about what it does about American policy--there is no reason Wikipedia needs to remain secretive about OSI as well. --LegitimateAndEvenCompelling (talk) 23:11, 26 May 2008 (UTC)