* J. B. Nicholson-Owens:
micu wrote:
But what would you say: Can criterion 4 (managed and further developed independently of any single vendor in aw process open to the equal participation of competitors and third parties) already be identified to be true?
I think I don't understand what criterion 4 is meant to address nor do I see how an unencumbered from-scratch implementation would not qualify as satisfying criterion 4.
Another implementation does not change and improve the standard. The standard remains unchanged.
IMHP, the whole concept is probably quite pointless. After all, C# is an open standard, but Emacs Lisp is not. And neither are TeX nor LaTeX. To me, it doesn't seem to be a useful category to think in.