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The Open Group's New Open Source Strategy

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the thinking-caps-on dept.

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"

5 of 287 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Viral by wo1verin3 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    >> Open Source = Viral.

    It's because people have pride in their work and want to share it with others that open source exists.

  2. Well.. by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


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

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  3. Draft strategy is excellent summary of Open Source by Thagg · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Bruce,

    I think that the opening section of your draft strategy is the best summary of the current state of the world of open-source/closed-source detente. It's exactly right that proprietary solutions are failing, and will fail with increasing rates, as open source proliferates and hardware increasingly becomes a commodity.

    I have two issues with the summary. The first is that it a strategy should be a long-term document, something that might be as valid five or ten years from now as it is today (this compares to a tactical position.) I don't think that the current stated strategy, while appropriate to this time of flux, will be appropriate then.

    Second, I just have a issue with the 'Sorry Vendors' line at the end of the first section -- everything else in the document is straightforward, concise, and emotion-free.

    thad

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  4. start with a name change by b17bmbr · · Score: 5, Funny
    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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  5. Comments? Hah! by batkins · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.