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LCA: Addressing the failure of open sourceLCA: Addressing the failure of open sourcePosted Jan 19, 2012 13:09 UTC (Thu) by ctg (subscriber, #3459)In reply to: LCA: Addressing the failure of open source by rsidd Parent article: LCA: Addressing the failure of open source
"The problem is not open source, but open standards and open access"
yes and no. I am old enough to have been around in the 80s. And towards the the end of that period "Open Standards" were all the range.
But then I lived through the UNIX wars.
Open Standards aren't enough. You also need a reference implementation. And that needs to be Open. And complete. And usable. Then it can be properly compared with the functions of other implementations.
To my mind, I think of Open Source as being Open Standards+Implementation.
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