Source Openness

Clipper has been inspected by a strictly countable set of eyes.

Countless programs and OSs follow traditional commercial model.

• Less responsive to users' needs.
• Lead to inevitable duplication of effort (barring failure of capitolism).

Everything2 is freer-than-free and unusably chaotic.

Standards bodies and Open Source projects somewhere in between.

IPR encumbrances affect availability of standards to open source projects.