Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] What is an Open Standard?

2009-12-11 Thread Egon Willighagen
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Peter Murray-Rust pm...@cam.ac.uk wrote: The intention of all the BO contributors of code and specs is to make them available, and re-usable without inappropriate restrictions. There is no intention to restrict fields of endeavour or people or organizations.

[BlueObelisk-discuss] Open Standards - Open Specifications

2009-12-11 Thread Egon Willighagen
Hi all, in reply to the other thread... one thing we seem to agree on, is that standards cannot be Open or not... something is a standard or not, and this is decided by the uptake really... Instead, what the discussion was really about is: Open Specifications. Shall we rename ODOSOS to: Open

Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] [Blueobelisk-discuss] What is an Open Standard?

2009-12-11 Thread Craig James
Egon Willighagen wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Craig James craig_ja...@emolecules.com wrote: If there are specific concerns about specific projects, then I'm all for a hearty discussion. If we want to recommend specific licenses as preferred for all OB projects, then that's a

Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] Open Standards - Open Specifications

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Murray-Rust
There is clearly a spectrum of uses of the word Open, some of which we would all agree with and some of which we would disagree. There are intermediates where we will draw different lines. As an example I recently heard a presentation (not chemistry) where the presenter (primarily a salesperson)