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Re:Google's dropping H.264 from Chrome a step backward for o... by robinhouston on Thursday January 13, 2011 @05:49AM (#2099425)
That is a rather anachronistic complaint. The term “open standard” was a term of art for standards such as H.264 long before the term “open source” was coined.
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Re:Google's dropping H.264 from Chrome a step backward for o... by ZeroGravitas on Thursday January 13, 2011 @08:15AM (#2099664)
No it wasn't. "Open Standard" was coined and defined precisely to indicate an affinity with "Open Source"

If you read the ITU reaction to the attempt to define "Open Standards" this is obvious.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_standard#ITU-T_definition

Any limited use of "open standard" before that point was as meaningful as someone referring to "free software" or "open source" before those terms were defined.

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Re:Google's dropping H.264 from Chrome a step backward for o... by robinhouston on Thursday January 13, 2011 @09:02AM (#2099768)
Sorry, but that's wildly anachronistic too. The term "open standard" was in widespread use long before "open source" was coined in 1998, and certainly before the ITU-T definition in 2005: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=open+standard&...

A term does not need to have a formal definition in order to have a meaning.

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Re:Google's dropping H.264 from Chrome a step backward for o... by trotsky on Thursday January 13, 2011 @10:48AM (#2100131)
Open standard had a very distinct and widely used definition well before the term "open source" was invented.
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