At Fri, 21 Jul 2006 20:18:08 +0200, Patrick Ohnewein wrote:
I am asking myself if the term "Open Standard" would be fine for us. [...] My question is: Is "Open Standard" an acceptable term for the Free Software community and can we create our definition under the label "Open Standard"?
To be honest, until this discussion I always thought that "Open Standard" = "Free Standard". I just used "free" because "open" is at least ambiguous, needless to mention the association with "Open Source".
To answer your question: I think that nowadays, when the Free Software Movement is constantly threatened to be buried by the "Open Source Campaign", it is our duty to point out the differences and establish a new term. I think that the new term should be called "free standard", because namely freedom is what distinguishes it from the already spread out term "open standard".