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Open
Openaccording to Google [1]
It has become commnplace to praise the Web as "open" or to hear impassioned defenses of "the Open Web." But what does it mean for an information system to be open? Today we will examine some varying definitions of openness, and guest speaker Ashwin Jacobs Mathew [http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/people/students/ashwinmathew] will present some questions about issues about "openness" raised by his study of the Internet Networking Protocols [./img/ashwin.pdf].(Click for Slide Presentation)
Open
Openaccording to Google [1]
At Google we believe that open systems win. They lead to more innovation, value, and freedom of choice for consumers, and a vibrant, profitable, and competitive ecosystem for businesses. Many companies will claim roughly the same thing since they know that declaring themselves to be open is both good for their brand and completely without risk. After all, in our industry there is no clear definition of what open really means. It is a Rashomon [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rashomon_effect]-like term: highly subjective and vitally important.
Jonathan Rosenberg, "The meaning of open" [http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/meaning-of-open.html], Official Google Blog, 2009
open technology) and the content level (
open information)
Our commitment to open systems is not altruistic. Rather it's good business
hurt users
David Recordon, What does the
[http://groups.google.com/group/open-graph-protocol/msg/5b700e5b7e563acf?pli=1], 2010open
in open graph protocol
mean?