Talk:The Open Group

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Is the "Open Group" really 'open' if it holds copyrights?

That question is not relevant to the purposes of Wikipedia. Tverbeek 16:01, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Anyone can hold a copyright and set whatever terms they like on it; that's not what "open" in this case means. It's actually a holdover from the Unix wars of the late 1980s, when it seemed everyone had a different, proprietary version of Unix and there were no real standards for anything; "Open" in this case means "available to anyone interested, usually without signing an NDA" (cf. open source). -lee 22:53, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV

I didn't place the notice, but it does read like an advertisement ... most of the intro is straight from their web page. There's a lot more interesting things to say about the Open Group if someone has a sense of history and a nice paper and/or email archive to reference - David Gerard 10:58, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

In this edit, 216.39.15.12 (talk • contribs) (which is opengroup12.44mont.buildinet.net) basically threw in their own webpage. It does provide useful information, so I won't just revert, but the page basically needs a complete rewrite to digest the new information into neutral encyclopedic form - David Gerard 11:07, 15 February 2006 (UTC)