[Freegis-list] free software GIS and open standards (was: relationship between Open Source GIS and open standards)

[Bernhard Reiter]

Am 14. Mar 2005 um 20:35:44 schrieb Bart van den Eijnden:
> I was wondering why there is such a strong link between Open Source GIS  
> and open standards, such as the OGC standards. Some of the reasons I could  
> think of are:

In 2001 I spoke in a track to the OECD IT security conference in Tokio 
about standards.

You could identify several ways how standards are created.
Mr. Karppinen called the two ways: a) "De jure standards"
and b) "De facto standards".  Prof. Naemura in addition named 
Free Software as important process to gain standards.

I think there was an agreement that Free Software playes an
important role in creating and estabilishing standards.

To me an open standard of a technology has at least two
implementations which one of them being Free Software.
Having one good Free Software solution often is second best
to having an open standard in the above sense.

Best,
	Bernhard

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