Why Open Source is Replacing Open Standards from Arthur Barstow on 2014-10-15 (public-openw3c@w3.org from October 2014)

From: Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 15:02:06 -0400
To: public-openw3c@w3.org
Message-ID: <543EC4AE.8010203@gmail.com>

Speaking of open standards and priorities, here's a blog that postulates 
that if broad interoperability is a key goal, the best way to achieve 
that is to focus on OSS rather than open standards:

   Why Open Source is Replacing Open Standards
<http://www.computerworlduk.com/blogs/open-enterprise/jim-zemlin-3580702/>

To some extent this view is a bit of a "duh". However, perhaps, some of 
the points are relevant vis-à-vis discussions like "After 5" (i.e. 
Robin's [After5]), identifying high priority work for the Web (f.ex. 
[Prios]) and Application Foundations [AF].

-Cheers, AB

[After5] <http://darobin.github.io/after5/>
[Prios] <https://www.w3.org/wiki/AB#AB_Priorities_for_2014.2F2015>
[AF] 
<http://www.w3.org/blog/2014/10/application-foundations-for-the-open-web-platform/>

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