Google wants to be Open

Posted by Monty Taylor on December 22, 2009 at 12:16 AM

Jonathan Rosenberg of Google posted a rather long but thoughtful description of what it means to be Open. Although he skips over a few things with a hand waving and a "yeah, I know I just said Open is good, that it's counter to what business types normally think, but in the long run Open is better... it just doesn't apply to these few things for vague reasons" the bulk of his post is both well thought out and correct.

The crux of the whole thing: Open wins.

I agree. We all need to continue to grapple with that and to continue to fight against the urges of "oh, but this thing is the magical exception to that rule." It's not. 

Open wins. Closed can suck it.

1 Comments

  1. [1]   James E. Blair
    December 22, 2009 at 01:07 PM

    The discussion at LWN may be of interest. A number of people point out that Chrome/Chromium, ChromeOS/ChromiumOS and Android are poor examples of "Open" by the very criteria put forth in Mr. Rosenberg's post. http://lwn.net/Articles/367732/
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