"Our friend Jonathan Schwartz has a blog (if you didn't know). In a recent entry he discusses 'open' as applied to computing and attempts to put his spin on what the word open really means.
"I think he misses the point. So let's take a look at what open systems are all about, their history and meaning.
"Do, please, note though that Open Systems and Open Source are not the same thing. Open Source was alive and well at the time that Open Systems were first defined, with Richard Stallman's GNU project and the USENET comp.source group both providing an array of Open Source for those that wanted to make use of it..."
