Open poll
May 8, 2000 10:19 am, by Ken Crater
Subject : Information
from the Automation List dept.
Text :
OK, so it's not a scientific sampling, but the below poll (shown with responses to date) was up on the Control.com site for a number of days and accumulated an interesting response -- it seems that there's a pretty wide variation in the definition of "open" as it relates to controls. The question posed was simple: "Open" means... 13 (12.62%) whatever Marketing wants it to mean. 25 (24.27%) the protocol is published and free to replicate. 1 (0.97%) the hardware is ISA bus, CompactPCI, PC/104, etc. 20 (19.42%) the software is open source. 25 (24.27%) 2-4 above. 19 (18.45%) all of the above. Note: "all of the above" was sort of a perverse choice that a number of people seem to think reflects the current reality. It'd be nice if "open" could begin to mean something again. We'll be putting a new poll up in a couple of days, if you want to get your votes in... http://www.control.com Ken Crater Control.com Inc. ken@control.com PS, if you have any good ideas for a poll you'd like to see, let me know.
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