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Hello, Does anybody have any thoughts on the relationship between open standards and open source? I recognize that this is an overly broad question and could be taken in a number of directions, but I am thinking along the lines of what this means practically to folks who make technology adoption, support, and use decisions at schools colleges, and universities. For example:
- Could somebody take a minute and outline some of the benefits of open standards and how they might practically impact educational institutions?
- What are some of the practical challenges of establishing open standards?
- Are there qualitative differences between OSS and proprietary methods of production, licensing, code transparency, community, etc. that impact adoption of open standards and participation in standards development?
I guess that this is about strategic adoption of learning support, design, delivery, and presentation technologies. We all want to meet current functional needs, but recognize that we also need to shield ourselves from some of the risk of pursuing a technology cul de sac without a viable exit or migration strategy.
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