{"id":673,"date":"2007-03-08T08:51:46","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T14:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2007\/03\/08\/who-owns-open\/"},"modified":"2007-03-08T08:51:46","modified_gmt":"2007-03-08T14:51:46","slug":"who-owns-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2007\/03\/08\/who-owns-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Who owns &quot;open&quot;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working on one of RedMonk&#8217;s rare paper writing projects and I find myself wanting to use the phrase <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2007\/01\/16\/open-platforms-in-systems-management\/\">&#8220;open platform&#8221;<\/a> when describing a system. I&#8217;ve written about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/2007\/01\/16\/open-platforms-in-systems-management\/\">the concept before<\/a>, but it was in the context of systems that were or had open <i>source<\/i> components.<\/p>\n<p>The question is then, can the adjective &#8220;open&#8221; be used by a closed source vendor without getting eye-rolls from open source and other people? Long ago, open was used to describe <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Open_system_%28computing%29\">&#8220;open systems&#8221;<\/a>. But, my fear is that now a vendor will get no end of crap hurled at them if they dare use the word &#8220;open&#8221; when they&#8217;re not open <i>source<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? (Vote below if you want.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"widget\">\n<p><!-- technorati tags start --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right;font-size:10px\">Technorati Tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/brand\" rel=\"tag\">brand<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/marketing\" rel=\"tag\">marketing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/open\" rel=\"tag\">open<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/platforms\" rel=\"tag\">platforms<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/openplatforms\" rel=\"tag\">openplatforms<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tag\/polls\" rel=\"tag\">polls<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can a closed source vendor use the word &#8220;open&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marketing","category-open-source"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}