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Should Open Source Content Management Interoperate?

Posted by michael on from the play-nicely dept.

bergie writes "Advogato is running a thought-provoking article on whether open source content management systems should interoperate. This is a big question involving social issues inside the projects, but also promising huge benefits to developers deploying open source CMSs and to desktop projects like Mozilla, OpenOffice and Xopus wishing to connect with a collaborative backend. This discussion will also be a major topic on the upcoming OSCOM conference."

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  1. But ... where is interop ends? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    What is the level at which you no more need to bother of interop?

    It is really a question. Many of developers go to FS/OS just becouse they like to do things the way they like. If you whould insist on such "standarts" you whould loose them.

    And the REALLY BIG INTEROP QUESTION is - "when you whould create ultimate translator from any Earth natural language to another" :)
    or at least a computerized subset of langaueges........
    English is not the answer. Just look at local communities. :(

    My solution is - _you_ should solve interop question by yourself. You shouldn't blame developers. You shouldn't ask them for any standart complince.
    Need example? - FreeBSD ports - they are not asking you(developer) to make software support FreeBSD. They just port your software independent of your wish to do this.