Fast-forward to today, and that system of open protocols brings the enormous benefits of the Web to civilian life.
With the launch of CardDAV, it's now possible to build a seamless sync experience using open protocols (IMAP, CalDAV and CardDAV) for Gmail, Google Calendar and Contacts.
Since this player works on open protocols, a person doesn't have to use the non-OS X friendly software suite but rather choose something a little more open such as TwonkeyVision.
The people who are going to be part of the collective, as opposed to the fragmented, market are the people who are using open protocols and who are designing not just interoperability, but making it possible to partition and provision how clients and servers connect and cooperate.
Mark had built his own fortune on things that Tom had left behind, things that were taken for granted such as open internet protocols and no requirements to license technology as no patents had been assigned to most of the things that made the internet work.
All the software and protocols uses are open to encourage inter-operability and to prevent any single company taking control.
Another no-small-thing is the tools and protocols used will be Open Source.
That task has fallen to an unlikely open source project that is based on cryptography protocols and peer-to-peer distributed computing.
Unlike Sony who hides their protocols, the WACI NX has an open protocol which you can access from just about any web programming language.
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Second, it rapidly became an open standard at a time when most data-networking protocols were proprietary.
You'd think electronic financial trading would be extra secure, but not so much: One of the most popular application-layer protocols in the financial industry leaves these money applications wide open to attack, according to researchers.
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