Free standards

Free standards

The concept of Free Standards emerged in the software industry as a reaction against closed "de facto" "standards" which served to reinforce monopolies.

The Free Standards Group, for example, developed standards and released them under the GNU Free Documentation License with no cover texts or invariant sections. Reference implementations and test suites, etc. were released as Free software.

Similar processes are now followed by the various "open" standards bodies, the word "open" having been popularised by the "open source" movement in order to engage powerful industry players [Stallman, R. 2007. Why “Open Source” misses the point of Free Software. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html accessed on 2 December 2007.]

Examples of Free/Open Standards Bodies

* [http://www.oasis-open.org OASIS]
* [http://www.opengeospatial.org/ Open Geospatial Consortium]

References

ee also

* Open standard
* Free file format
* Libre knowledge


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