Open Standards and Open Source - Open Source developer/management resources | Open Source Books
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Open Standards - definition | Standards Engineering Society paper on Open Standards
  • Some software standards OASIS | Arsaperta en | SGML | CGM | XML | DirXML | voiceXML | .NET | Mono | On Dot NET from O'REILLY | J2EE
  • Other examples of Standards Organizations ITU | IEEE | IETF | ecma | ISO | IEC | ISO/IEC JTC | ITIC | INCITS | ANSI | NIST
  • Open Standards Organizations
  • THE Open GROUP making standards work
  • OpenStandards.net
  • THE LINUX FOUNDATION Free Standards Group + OSDL -Safeguarding Linux through Standards
  • Linux Standard Base why ISV care, road map, etc.
  • POSIX The Portable Application Standards Committee of IEEE
  • Public Patent Foundation -Representing the Pulic's Interests in the Patent System
  • ODF Open Document Format Alliance | ODF toolkit | OASIS read the overview | wikipedia ODF | MS [OO]XML really | OOXML Analysis
  • Open Web Foundation and similarly The Apache Software Foundation
  • xiph.org open Internet multimedia standards
  • p2p-next.org SHAPING THE NEXT GENERATION OF INTERNET TV -also see: tribler.org bittorrent future?
    • Open Source - read about this paradigm shift and some business models and 10 YEARS of the OSI and OpenSourceStrategies.org also try InfoWorld
    Open Source Project Sites - some major development sites

    "For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the myth -- persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." JFK Yale University graduating class speech (June 11, 1962)

  • softpanorama.org self education resource - understanding the basics and why
    • Corporations using and supporting Open Source
    Government and Open Source
    Publishers of Open Source resources
  • O'REILLY Open Source resource center PRESENTATIONS from Open Source Conference
    • Hardware systems that follow Open Source Development models read about Arduino and of course wikipedia
    other Open Source - MUSIC