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SUMMARY:Open Source, Open Standards
DESCRIPTION:I've been told in the past that Open Source and Open Standards are practically the same thing, they go so well together. While they're both good things, unfortunately, they're not quite as naturally reinforcing as you'd like. There's cost and style of participation, IPR concerns, and proliferation of standards ("The good thing about standards is, there's so many to choose from" - ref).   Participation in Open Standards effectively can be expensive, even when the organization has no membership barriers. I've met Open Source developers who were already spending all their spare cycles contributing their coding skills and participating in their project's mailing lists. Another mailing list to discuss standards? Not an option for many. Beyond the mailing list participation, physical presence is even more expensive, yet it's hard to do without. I work with the AtomPub WG which has a high amount of Open Source participation, and that by itself has been great. The downside is that the WG never meets, and the email gets pretty nasty at times. There's a tension between big-process Open Standards groups like the IETF, and little-process informal groups. Take OpenID for example. It's unclear who makes choices in OpenID...
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