There is a clear and mutual relationship of Open Standards with Open Source Software (OSS).
Open standards aid OSS projects
- Makes it easy for users to adopt an OSS program, because users not locked in – eases migration & integration
- Simplifies OSS development (developers know what to do)
- Open standards aid proprietary projects same way
OSS aids open standards
- OSS implementations help create & keep open standards open (reference model demos implementability & how, clarifies spec)
- Rapidly increases use of open standard. “Implement by downloading” makes standard widespread, & downward cost pressure reigns in price of proprietary (increasing use)
- Successful open standards have OSS implementation
Excerpt above is lifted from David A. Wheeler presentation (Open Standards and Security)
While some companies are spending their engineers time to participate in working groups and standards setting organizations, our industry is a better place today because of the significant OSS contributions of all of the hardworking individuals from ASF, Mozilla, Codehaus and other open source communities.
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