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To: Jim McDonald who wrote (161)7/3/1996 5:46:00 PM
From: Dontin Wang   of 24154
 
Jim--

Think one level up. The standards you listed are mostly those that
evolved from the Unix platform; vendors are supporting them because
of the size of the market--not because of some mystical quality known
as "openness" . Having some committee's stamp of approval doesn't
mean "open"--at least not in any way that matters. What about vendors
that didn't get to participate in the committee--couldn't they claim that
the standard wasn't open? As you say, it's all relative. That's what I
meant by there is no such thing as an "open" standard.

What *really* matters, as far as standards are concerned, is size of
(and access to) installed base, and industry support. In other words,
customers decide what is *really* "open". Given this, any vendor
claiming to be more "open" than another is shouting about an
irrevelant (IMO) problem--in other words, hyping.

Thanks for the info about what you're working on.
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