OPEN STANDARDS AND OPEN SOURCE

By

Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala

kalyan@bananaip.com

www.bananaip.com

Blog: www.bananaip.com/sinapse-blog

Standards Closed Open

Implementation

Proprietary

Open Source

Openness of OSS Source Code Copy and Modify Distribute

License Variability

Interface Implementation

Ex: HTML Intellectual Property OSS Compliance

Ex: IEEE standards - Patents - RAND terms

OSI and Open Standards No secrecy Availability Patents No agreements No Dependencies

No Secrecy Information for Inter-operability

Example

Internet Standards Organisation releases standards for developing webpages to enable access by the blind. Part of the standards for enabling access by speech recognition softwares are available only after signing a non-disclosure agreement.

Availability Publicly available Stable website Royalty-free Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory Cost

Example

Wireless technology standards are made available to companies for a royalty.

PatentsRoyalty-FreeNo assertion

Example

Reasonable royalty must be paid for implementing standards developed by IEEE.

No Agreements

Execution Click wrap or any other kind

Example

An agreement must be accepted before accessing a standard or implementing a standard.

No Dependancy Technology Agreement Condition

Example

All implementations of the standard must be based on C language.

Marking

OSR Compatible OSR Conformant Versioning

Cloud Computing And

Open Source

Cloud Computing

Model Business Models Open Source Challenge SonaType software

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