Talk:The Open Group

Open?

Is the "Open Group" really 'open' if it holds copyrights?

That question is not relevant to the purposes of Wikipedia. Tverbeek 16:01, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

Anyone can hold a copyright and set whatever terms they like on it; that's not what "open" in this case means. It's actually a holdover from the Unix wars of the late 1980s, when it seemed everyone had a different, proprietary version of Unix and there were no real standards for anything; "Open" in this case means "available to anyone interested, usually without signing an NDA" (cf. open source). -lee 22:53, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

NPOV

I didn't place the notice, but it does read like an advertisement ... most of the intro is straight from their web page. There's a lot more interesting things to say about the Open Group if someone has a sense of history and a nice paper and/or email archive to reference - David Gerard 10:58, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

In this edit, 216.39.15.12 (talk · contribs) (which is opengroup12.44mont.buildinet.net) basically threw in their own webpage. It does provide useful information, so I won't just revert, but the page basically needs a complete rewrite to digest the new information into neutral encyclopedic form - David Gerard 11:07, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

Profit?

Could somebody elaborate if the Open Group is a profit-oriented entity? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.49.250.236 (talk) 16:46, 27 January 2011 (UTC)

history

The two paragraphs for the history section don't appear to fit together, because they are describing (apparently) unrelated events. TEDickey (talk) 09:50, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

is or **was** Open Group working on Single UNIX Specification

Statement

"The Open Group is most famous as the certifying body for the UNIX trademark,[2]
 and its publication of the Single UNIX Specification technical standard,[3]"

looks non consistent with article about Single_Unix_Specification

"The Single UNIX Specification (SUS) is the collective name of a family of standards 
for computer operating systems to qualify for the name "Unix". 
The SUS is developed and maintained by the Austin Group, 
based on earlier work by the IEEE and The Open Group."

Also [Unix Wars] statement:

 In 1996, X/Open and the new OSF merged to form the Open Group. COSE work such as the Single UNIX 
 Specification, the current standard for branded Unix, is now the responsibility of the Open Group. 
 However, the damage to Unix's market reputation had been done.

is quite different (or my English is very poor ;/ )

Sffp (talk) 10:10, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

They are related. See Austin Group TEDickey (talk) 10:45, 6 December 2012 (UTC)