| The nonprofit sector has spent millions of dollars on source code for software. Some of the community (myself included) has extolled the value of open source licensing of that code. But open standards are even more important and, relative to the amount of money spent writing code, the sector has spent almost nothing on developing open standards. Jonathan Schwartz takes on the issue of open source versus open standards and explains why this is important.
Posted: 4/8/03; 10:54:24 AM # |