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IT, Be Free!

Posted by michael on from the one-standard-to-rule-them-all dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Open Group, along with IBM, has published a 500-word document that it hopes developers will endorse. The 'Developer Declaration of Independence' enjoins corporations, governments, organizations, and individuals to adopt and protect open standards in order to promote interoperability among all vendors and give IT customers freedom of choice. The Boston-based Open Group promotes the POSIX open standard and sells compliance testing to OS vendors. It has not yet organized a 'Boston IT Party,' however."

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  1. Good Idea? by lustucru · · Score: 5, Funny

    I suggest 24th of July becomes a public holiday for IT people.

    1. Re:Good Idea? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      There's a joke about 24/7 in there somewhere....I just know it

  2. Free? by News+for+nerds · · Score: 3, Funny

    When IT gets really free, we no longer see articles about cheap IT jobs outsourced to India, right?

  3. We hold... by Scrab · · Score: 2, Funny

    these truths to be self evident, that all software is created equal, and that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights...

    On second thoughts, perhaps not...

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  4. Ahh.. by StarfishOne · · Score: 2, Funny


    How did that joke go again?

    Oh, yeah: I Blame Microsoft

    :-D

  5. I'm a software engineer and I have freedom by BillsPetMonkey · · Score: 4, Funny

    Lots of it. Apart from when I have to go to the job centre once a fortnight on Thursday.

    I'm glad I've got IBM on my side. They've certainly been doing their bit for the UK software industry.

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