- From: Håkon Wium Lie <howcome@opera.com>
- Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 00:01:16 +0200
- To: "karsten luecke" <list@kltf.de>
- Cc: howcome@opera.com, lord@emf.net, www-font@w3.org
Also sprach karsten luecke:
> > - fundamentally, open standards don't benefit the dominant players in
> > a market as they lower the barrier for competition (this is true
> > for all markets, not just software)
>
> EOT *is* an open (documented) standard.
My comments were are about TTF/OTF, not EOT.
For most of its lifetime, EOT has been a secret format. Documentation
is now available, but that doesn't automatically make it an "open
standard", at least not per "Microsoft's definition" [1]:
Let's look at what an open standard means: 'open' refers to it
being royalty-free, while 'standard' means a technology approved by
formalised committees that are open to participation by all
interested parties and operate on a consensus basis. An open
standard is publicly available, and developed, approved and
maintained via a collaborative and consensus driven process.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_standards
Cheers,
-h&kon
Håkon Wium Lie CTO °þe®ª
howcome@opera.com http://people.opera.com/howcome
Received on Saturday, 4 July 2009 22:02:17 UTC