A philosophy that promotes standards as a way of empowering users to avoid vendor lock-in. Essentially open standards are those that are not under the control of a single vendor. As such a committee of people from a variety of institutions controls them.
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(CONTROL SYSTEMS GLOSSARY) Open systems are customarily defined as those systems that can be supplied by hardware components from multiple vendors, and whose software can be operated from different platforms. They are opposite to closed or proprietary systems.
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