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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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