IT, Be Free! · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by michael on Friday July 23, 2004 @10:35PM 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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Good Idea? by lustucru · 2004-07-23 22:45 · Score: 5, Funny

I suggest 24th of July becomes a public holiday for IT people.
1. Re:Good Idea? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-07-23 23:03 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  There's a joke about 24/7 in there somewhere....I just know it