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Why Are We Talking About Open Source Today?
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A common element of most successful software standards
over the past several years has been an Open Source
reference implementation.
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The fact of the tremendous growth of Open Source, and its
acceptance by mainstream vendors like IBM and customers
like Credit Suisse is sufficient reason to take a closer
look at it.
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Open Source presents the standards organization with a
challenge, because it uses a business model that is
fundamentaly different from the one we've become used to.
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Open Source facilitates the rapid creation of de-facto
(non-formal) standards in software in a new way that is
more fair to all participants.
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Open Source has its own standards organization. How is it
different?
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