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Old 11-29-2012, 01:00 PM   #1
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LXer: What does 'Open' Mean?


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If you are a regular reader of this blog, you probably have an interest in 'openness' of some kind: open standards and open source software most likely, but you may also feel strongly about openness in other technology-enabled areas, like open data or open government - or openness as a guiding principle, no matter what the digital terrain.

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There was a comment I saw recently, I think on groklaw, that described an open standard as one that "does not require entering into an agreement with another party to implement". I think that's pretty much it in a nutshell.

Open software, et al, are certainly a bit more complex to define (the gpl, for example, requires the copyright holders' permission to do certain things), but I think in general it follows the same idea.
 
  


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