What is involved in an "Open Standard" truly being so?

[Oren Beck]

Open Standard.

2 words that are being abused or distorted..
Either singly or as a "self qualifying " term.

Open means what it says and says what it means.
As should Standard.
So any tangible work or expressible code should either pass or fail
examination for those terms BOTH applying.

Either a Standard is Open and meets every criteria for that term applying or
it is misused.
Either something is in compliance with a Standard that passes the first test
for being Open or it is neither.

Thus a majority of what we have been misled are Open Standards are not.




Oren Beck


"Profiting from any part of restricting access to the totality of what
defines a standard should be ethically suspect.
See the intents of GPL for good reasons to adopt such an ethics position."
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