I’ve read a very interesting post on this topic. I must admit I’m 100% in agreement. By googlelizing a little bit on this topic, I found an old article that present a completely different positioning…of course it’s written by a guy from Sun.
The key point is really expressed by Micah saying : “If we have a single implementation for something that works across platforms do we even need to have a ’standard’? Especially if an implementation is open source then isn’t the code itself the best standard? It may be much more fruitful to focus on making the same code base perform the same way across multiple platforms than creating an open standard that defines how something should behave just in case it is implemented by different groups of people, in different programming languages, on different platforms”.
I think Open Standard and Open Source are sharing only one concept: to be open….and that’s all! For sure, Sun says that Open Standard if much more important mainly to allow CIO to decide which implementation they will choose… that’s true, but as most of the implementation are most of the time differing…even largely, this argument comes down pretty quickly.