[$] Untangling the Open Collectives

Name collisions aren't just a problem for softwaredevelopment-organizations, projects, and software that have thesame or similar names can cause serious confusion. That was certainlythe case on February28 when the Open CollectiveFoundation (OCF) began to notify its hosted projects that it wouldbe shutting down by the end of2024. The announcement surprisedprojects hosted with OCF, as one might expect. It also worried andconfused users of the Open Collective software platform from Open Collective, Inc. (OCI), aswell as organizations hosted by the Open SourceCollective (OSC) and Open CollectiveEurope (OC Europe). There is enough confusion about the names,relationships between the organizations, and impact on projects likeFlatpak, Homebrew, and htop hosted by OCF, that adeeper look is warranted.