Abstract Open Source vs. Open Standards

Andrew Updegrove

1/01/2005
(Original Publish Date: 2005)

The delivery in early 2005 of an ultimatum by 29 open source community leaders to OASIS, a respected standards developing consortium, demanding that OASIS amend its intellectual property policy to suit the open source community's definition of "open standards" occasions this analysis of what "open standards" can -- and should -- mean, and how the open source and the open standards communities should agree upon a common definition to permit the advancement of their mutual (and equally important) efforts.