summary of Re: Beyond 'open standard'
Georg C. F. Greve
greve at fsfeurope.org
Thu Jul 20 10:23:37 UTC 2006
|| On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 22:31:15 +0200
|| Jeroen Dekkers <jeroen at vrijschrift.org> wrote:
jd> An Open Standard isn't an oxymoron IHMO. You've got proprietary
jd> standards like MP3 and de facto standards like MS Word.
You're missing my point, I think.
I know that these are referred to as standards by their vendors, but
ultimately what makes a standard a standard? To me it is the
availability for everyone to work and interoperate on the basis of
that standard independent of their competitors.
So even though people like to speak about "proprietary standards" or
"de-facto standards" for marketing purposes, I don't consider them
standards, at all.
In fact I would encourage everyone to speak about "proprietary
formats" and/or "proprietary interfaces" in such cases.
Regards,
Georg
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