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1. By
Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala
kalyan@bananaip.com
www.bananaip.com
Blog: www.bananaip.com/sinapse-blog

2. Standards
Closed
Open
Implementation
Proprietary
Open Source

3. Openness of OSS
Source Code
Copy and Modify
Distribute
License Variability

4. Interface
 Implementation
Ex: HTML
 Intellectual Property
 OSS Compliance
Ex: IEEE standards - Patents - RAND terms

5. OSI and Open Standards
No secrecy
Availability
Patents
No agreements
No Dependencies

6. No Secrecy
 Information for Inter-operability
 Example
 Internet Standards Organisation releases
standards for developing webpages to enable
access by the blind. Part of the standards for
enabling access by speech recognition
softwares are available only after signing a non-
disclosure agreement.

7. Availability
 Publicly available
 Stable website
 Royalty-free
 Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory Cost
 Example
 Wireless technology standards are
made available to companies for a
royalty.

8. Patents
 Royalty-Free
 No assertion
 Example
 Reasonable royalty must be paid
for implementing standards
developed by IEEE.

9. No Agreements
 Execution
 Click wrap or any other kind
 Example
 An agreement must be accepted
before accessing a standard or
implementing a standard.

10. No Dependancy
 Technology
 Agreement
 Condition
 Example
 All implementations of the standard
must be based on C language.

11. Marking
OSR Compatible
OSR Conformant
Versioning

12. Cloud Computing
And
Open Source

13. Cloud Computing
 Model
 Business Models
 Open Source Challenge
 SonaType software

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