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A few years ago, when Eric Raymond was complaining about proprietary GPS related "standards", http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=888 http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=888 , I dr
by billswift 14y ago
A few years ago, when Eric Raymond was complaining about proprietary GPS related "standards", http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=888 http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=888 , I drew what I think is a useful distinction in a comment:
An “unreleased standard” is not a standard, it’s a specification. Conversely, a standard is a shared specification.
And the same could be said for proprietary "standards". But in the case of HTML5, they are both open standards, just with different "forms of presentation", I guess would be the most useful term. One is a moving, transient standard, the other (W3C) is a series of snapshots.