LXer: Away From a Standard of Openness

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07-07-2006, 10:21 PM	#1
LXer LXer NewsBot Registered: Dec 2005 Posts: 128,914 Rep:	LXer: Away From a Standard of Openness Published at LXer: I am, as you may have noticed, unequivocally in favor of the adoption of free and open source software by schools and governments. I have also spent a considerable portion of my career in ed-tech creating tools that support interoperability via open standards like RDF, iCalendar and SIF. Open source and open standards are two good things. So I have found it difficult to explain precisely why it is a bad idea for K-12 Open Technologies, a recent intitiative by CoSN, IBM, and the Hewlett Foundation to lump them together and promote the two concepts as "open technologies." Read More...

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