NewsForge editor Tina Gasperson reports on Carnegie Mellon's 'Sustainable Computing Consortium' and its apparent embrace of proprietary standards. Gasperson writes . . .

” . . . In order to make some measurable gains in software quality and security, CMU is hooking up with big players in IT and software development, and NASA, to look at new techniques for measuring sustainability. And ironically, all these different companies are going to put their heads together to brainstorm and collaborate and share ideas on some, get ready for this, good old proprietary software and intellectual property that they'll have to pay a licensing fee to use outside their own companies . . .”

” . . . With recent efforts like the Carrier Grade Linux Working Group having demonstrated that an Open Source project like Linux can be hardened sufficiently for mission critical use by the telecommunications industry, coupled with the overall good record for security that the operating system already enjoys, it is natural that OSS and Free Software models should be a driving force behind the Consortium. Yet, leading Open Source companies who want to get involved have discovered that the Sustainable Computing Consortium will operate in a proprietary environment . . . “

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