Defining Open Standards
The first presentation I ever attended about open source was actually supposed to be about open standards. A panel of representatives from some major software companies was trying to define open standards for the audience. They couldn't agree on a definition, and they kept confusing open standards with open source.
By then I had already started working with Open Source Initiative and I was smugly confident about the definition of open source. We had a published Open Source Definition to rely on (see Chapter 1). I understood the relationship between open source and software freedom. But I hadn't the slightest clue what the panelists really meant by open standards. Was it somehow also related to software freedom?
I believed ...
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