IBM has announced a new corporate strategy regarding its participation in the hundreds of standard-setting organizations relevant to its products. Simply put, it only wants to work within an environment that is open and transparent. “Standard-setting is too important — for business, for government, for citizens and consumers — to be anything but completely open,” Bob Sutor, IBM’s vice president of open source and standards, told LinuxInsider. “There is simply no justification for standards to be created in nontransparent ways using policies that are problematic, at best.”
