- From: Chamindra de Silva <chamindra@opensource.lk>
- Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 09:44:21 +0530
- To: Humanitarian-FOSS <humanitarian-ict@yahoogroups.com>, W3C Disaster Management Ontology List <public-disaster-management-ont@w3.org>
- CC: Ravindra De Silva <ravindra@opensource.lk>
Ravindra wrote: > http://www.iso.org/iso/pressrelease.htm?refid=Ref1070 Though definitions of what an "Open Standard" means varies, AFAIK OOXML is hardly an "Open Standard". To me there are three main ingredients for a true Open Standard: - Royalty free availability of specification and the ability to implement it without infringing patents - An open community process for defining and maintaining the standard - Availability of an Open Source implementation. This is possibly less critical, but greatly helps the standard become more pervasive as people can incorporate open source libraries rapidly into their systems. Isn't that the story of TCP/IP :-) Thoughts...? Chamindra de Silva http://chamindra.googlepages.com
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