- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@hsivonen.fi>
- Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 15:07:03 +0300
- To: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Cc: "public-restrictedmedia@w3.org List" <public-restrictedmedia@w3.org>
On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 12:32 AM, David Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote: > By the way 'the open web' means generally the content that is linked into and accessible on the public internet, in contrast to the use of the same technologies used in internal (closed) networks or in other controlled environments (e.g. web offerings from an ISP to only its customers, and so on). Really? Did the term Open Web really come into use in contrast to intranets and not in contrast to proprietary technology? If people want to contrast to intranets, don't they say "on the public Web" or something like that? The following instances of usage that show up in a Google search seem to contradict your assertion. They contrast "Open" to "proprietary"--not to "intranet": "Historically Mozilla spent quite a bit of energy promoting use of the "open Web" over proprietary platforms and non-standard browser extensions (IE6)" http://robert.ocallahan.org/2011/09/shifts-in-promoting-open-web.html "The Open Web Platform is the collection of open (royalty-free) technologies which enables the Web. Using the Open Web Platform, everyone has the right to implement a software component of the Web without requiring any approvals or waiving license fees." http://www.w3.org/wiki/Open_Web_Platform "The Open Web Foundation is an independent non-profit dedicated to the development and protection of open, non-proprietary specifications for web technologies." http://www.openwebfoundation.org/ "Whether the protocols used are de facto or de-jure, they should either be documented with open specifications or open code. Any entity should be able to implement these standards or use this code to hook into the system, without penalty of patents, copyright of standards, etc." http://codinginparadise.org/weblog/2008/04/whats-open-web-and-why-is-it-important.html "open formats for freely publishing what you write, photograph, video and otherwise create, author, or code (e.g. HTML, CSS, Javascript, JPEG, PNG, Ogg, WebM etc.)." http://tantek.com/2010/281/b1/what-is-the-open-web -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@hsivonen.fi http://hsivonen.fi/
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