Sorry, but that's wildly anachronistic too. The term "open standard" was in widespread use long before "open source" was coined in 1998, and certainly before th

Sorry, but that's wildly anachronistic too. The term "open standard" was in widespread use long before "open source" was coined in 1998, and certainly before the ITU-T definition in 2005: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=open+standard&year_start=1975&year_end=2008&corpus=0&smoothing=3 http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=open+standard&#38... A term does not need to have a formal definition in order to have a meaning.