The Open Group's New Open Source Strategy

Bruce Perens writes "The Open Group hasn't always had the best reputation in the Open Source community, mostly because of their handling of Motif, which remained proprietary for much too long. But there's no arguing with the success of our community, and now the Open Group leadership understands that their organization must be fully involved in Open Source... or it's time for them to change their name. To that end, the Open Group contracted me to develop an Open Source strategy for their organization. The draft strategy has been published and they are requesting comment. - Bruce"

Comments

My attention span is about 5 minutes

[Anonymous Coward]

The document is boring and long. You need to spiff it up with Flash animations and PowerPoint slides. The ratio of pictures to words is also extremely low. There is no executive summary. No one will ever read the whole thing.

Re:My attention span is about 5 minutes

[The Phantom Buffalo]

Piping Hot Bitches

But I fail to see what attractive women have to do with this.

Well..

[grub]

I won't believe they're serious until they change their name to Gnu/OpenGroup.

start with a name change

[b17bmbr]

how about,

• "The now we're open group"
• "More Open Group"
• "We haven't been so Open in the past, but we've see the errors of our ways Group"
• "No longer Not Open group"
• "Bandwagon Group"
• "The New and Improved Open Group"
• "Really Open Group"
• "This time we mean it Open Group"

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Re:Viral

[Clippy]

No, no. Not Open Source = Viral, Open Source == Viral

Comments? Hah!

[batkins]

So, wait, he expects the Slashdot readers to read a draft and comment on it? Ha! Read the article - that's a good one, Bruce.