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What does it mean to be open. My copy of Oxford defines open as: "unconcealed circumstances or condition". Way back in the day when the GNU operating system was getting going, they coined the mantra: "Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of free as in free speech, not as in free beer." Last month, I talked about transparency and how important it was in software and systems. Just as important are standards, and, more important following those standards. Today, in Computerworld, a different issue has been raised. The value of standards.
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