EU Wants To Redefine "Closed" As "Nearly Open" 239
Glyn Moody writes "A leaked copy (PDF) of Version 2 of the European Interoperability Framework replaces a requirement in Version 1 for carefully-defined open standards by one for a more general 'openness': 'the willingness of persons, organizations or other members of a community of interest to share knowledge and to stimulate debate within that community of interest.' It also defines an 'openness continuum' that includes 'non-documented, proprietary specifications, proprietary software and the reluctance or resistance to reuse solutions, i.e. the "not invented here" syndrome.' Looks like 'closed' is the new 'open' in the EU."
Re:How hard is it? (Score:3, Funny)
There has been a lot of compatible PDF viewers, but the pool of PDF creation software is limited. Most OSS solutions implement a subset of the features. Even now, there really is nothing to complete with the feature level in Adobe Acrobat.
Hey, that means it's "nearly open"!
Re:Open is the pinnacle of ambiguosity. (Score:4, Funny)
free as in freedom
Yeah, that's certainly not ambiguous at all.
If you're going to care about something, care about freedom, not openness.
So, we should care about the freedom screw people over? After all, that's a freedom.
Re:Well, actually ... (Score:4, Funny)
How's your education system going? Any improvements?
Obviously not, or he'd know that there are more than 4 countries in the world.
Re:Well, actually ... (Score:5, Funny)
The USA is the only country in the world.
Everything else is just a proxy state.
Re:Well, actually ... (Score:1, Funny)
You had to give lollies to your parents?