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2005-September-14

Cooperation depends on open standards

Filed under: Freedom, Intellectual Property, Programming

Cooperation matters, and that’s why everyone needs to be able to get a copy of a standard (hopefully for free in some form) and implement it for free. When people lean on “proprietary standards” (an oxymoron), then cooperation is the first casualty. When those “standards” are licensed with onerous terms, cooperation is limited to a few monied interests. Free matters.

Well, Groklaw makes a better argument than I do. Check the link, above.

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