Hands Across the Water: Open Source and Open Standards

Andy Updegrove writes “Given how often the words “open source” and “open standards” are bandied about in the technical press, it surprises me how little many in the open source community seem to care about the second half of this pairing or related tools. It’s especially surprising since open standards don’t need open source, but open source, like all other software does need open standards. And that’s reason enough for the open source community to want to know more about them.”