Open Standards and Open Source / A presentation by Dr. Kalyan C Kankanala
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5. OSI and Open Standards
No secrecy
Availability
Patents
No agreements
No Dependencies
6. 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.
7. Availability
Publicly available
Stable website
Royalty-free
Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory Cost
Example
Wireless technology standards are
made available to companies for a
royalty.
8. Patents
Royalty-Free
No assertion
Example
Reasonable royalty must be paid
for implementing standards
developed by IEEE.
9. No Agreements
Execution
Click wrap or any other kind
Example
An agreement must be accepted
before accessing a standard or
implementing a standard.
10. No Dependancy
Technology
Agreement
Condition
Example
All implementations of the standard
must be based on C language.