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Open Protocols and Technologies
The contents of this table were culled from Rohit Khare's FoRK mailing list. Please help me clarify this list, and add to it. Email me more examples. |
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Open Protocols/Technologies Software vs. Closed (Proprietary)
| Open |
Closed (Proprietary) |
| Ethernet |
Token Ring |
| SMTP |
CCMail, MCI Mail, etc. |
| OpenLDAP |
X.400/X.500 |
| TCP/IP |
ISO OSI |
| HTML |
'rich text' (in many forms) |
| PCI/ISA |
MicroChannel |
| SDRAM |
RDRAM |
| Jabber |
AOL AIM |
| WWW |
MS Blackbird, ca. 1996 |
| Javascript |
Active-X |
| Linux/*BSD |
OSF/Unixware/SCO (with only Solaris barely hanging on) |
| ASCII -> Unicode |
EBCDIC |
| TCP/IP |
IBM LU6.2 et al |
| Ethernet |
ATM |
| Cisco |
IBM |
| IETF/W3 |
everybody |
| IETF |
CCITT |
| Ogg Vorbis |
MP3 (requires licensing), RealAudio, WindowsMedia, et al |
| Shoutcast/Icecast |
RealAudio, et al |
| Postscript |
PCL (This one is tangled by stupid Adobe, Ghostscript, HP, MS.) |
| XML |
SGML |
| StarOffice (OpenOffice) |
MSOffice (Pending) |
| Samba |
NT et al |
| PNG |
GIF |
| PHP |
ASP |
| Mozilla (XUL, CSS, Javascript) |
Microsoft .NET (C#) |
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