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    The 2023 State of Open Standards

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    Standards are a part of the fabric of our technical systems and have important influence over decision-making and innovation. To better understand how these standards come to be, the Linux Foundation set out to research the practices currently used to develop and adopt standards in the information and computing technology sector.
     
    This report synthesizes findings from a survey that asked LF and survey partner communities about their involvement in standards, the value of and growth in standards, and what challenges they have experienced in this practice. Overall, we found that our respondents prefer open standards over closed, that they see significant organizational value in using open standards, and that there are important challenges to consider when adopting standards.
     
    Author: Jory Burson, The Linux Foundation
    With a foreword by Dr. Jochen Friedrich, IBM
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    Open source communities are at the heart of an explosion of technical innovation, where industry leaders, engineers, and end users are collectively creating and improving the digital infrastructure on which the global economy depends.

    With an extensive community of members, connections with thousands of companies, and hundreds of thousands of open source contributors, professionals, solution providers, and users, the Linux Foundation is in a unique position to investigate the growing scale of open source collaboration, and provide insights into emerging technology trends, best practices, and global impact of open source projects.

    By leveraging project databases and networks, and through a commitment to best practices in quantitative and qualitative methodologies, Linux Foundation Research is designed to be the go-to repository for open source insights for the benefit of organizations and governments the world over.

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