On the Semantic Web, computers do the browsing for us. The SemWeb enables computers to seek out knowledge distributed throughout the Web, mesh it, and then take action based on it. To use an analogy, the current Web is a decentralized platform for distributed presentations while the SemWeb is a decentralized platform for distributed knowledge. RDF is the W3C standard for encoding knowledge.
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Microsoft (COMP/C-3/37.792 - Antitrust) [2004] ECComm 1 (24 March 2004) - 0 views
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European Union Anti Trust action against Microsoft. Begins with 1998 complaint from Sun involving browsers and Java. Extends through DRM and digital media players. Great discussion of key terms such as interoperabiltiy, interfaces, system call, platfor
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European Union Anti Trust action against Microsoft. Begins with 1998 complaint from Sun involving browsers and Java. Extends through DRM and digital media players. Great discussion of key terms such as interoperabiltiy, interfaces, system call, platfor
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European Union Anti Trust action against Microsoft. Begins with 1998 complaint from Sun involving browsers and Java. Extends through DRM and digital media players. Great discussion of key terms such as interoperabiltiy, interfaces, system call, platfor
NewsForge | SCALE Announces Workshop On Open Standards For Government - 0 views
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OpenDocument Fellowship, Gary Edwards - OpenOffice.org, J. David eisenberg - Fellowship
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OpenDocument Fellowship, Gary Edwards - OpenOffice.org, J. David eisenberg - Fellowship
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OpenDocument Fellowship, Gary Edwards - OpenOffice.org, J. David eisenberg - Fellowship
Regrettable word choice -- Andy Updegrove's comment on "Microsoft releases FAQ on Ecma ... - 0 views
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Microsoft ECMA Submission, Covenant to Sue, and FAQ. FAQ clearly contradicts the covenanant to sue?
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Microsoft ECMA Submission, Covenant to Sue, and FAQ. FAQ clearly contradicts the covenanant to sue?
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Microsoft ECMA Submission, Covenant to Sue, and FAQ. FAQ clearly contradicts the covenanant to sue?
What is RDF and what is it good for? - 0 views
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Exellent introduction to RDF and the Semantic Web!
Joint letter to the Open Source Community From Novell and Microsoft - 0 views
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This makes me sick. The indemnification nazis are driving a patent wedge right through the heart and soul of open source.
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This makes me sick. The indemnification nazis are driving a patent wedge right through the heart and soul of open source.
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This makes me sick. The indemnification nazis are driving a patent wedge right through the heart and soul of open source.
The Meaning of Open Standards - 0 views
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The marbux comment:
See particularly section 6.8 and its discussion of "etiquettes," which sounds like CDF profiles to me.
This 1998 academic paper on open standards could give us a solid foundation to build our arguments for Universal Interop from. I may have forwarded this link before, roughly a year ago. Here is the abstract of the paper:
This paper develops the argument that many Information Technology standardization processes are in transition from being controlled by standards creators to being controlled by standards implementers. The users of standardized implementations also have rights that they wish addressed. Ten basic rights of standards creators, implementers and users are identified and quantified. Each of these ten rights represents an aspect of Open Standards. Only when all ten rights are supported will standards be open to all.
It builds upon a previous work by Bruce Perens. Well worth the read.
Details about [opendocument] - 0 views
The better Office alternative: SoftMaker Office bests OpenOffice.org ( - Soft... - 0 views
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Frankly, from Microsoft's perspective, the danger may have been overstated. Though the free open source crowd talks a good fight, the truth is that they keep missing the real target. Instead of investing in new features that nobody will use, the team behind OpenOffice should take a page from the SoftMaker playbook and focus on interoperability first. Until OpenOffice works out its import/export filter issues, it'll never be taken seriously as a Microsoft alternative. More troubling (for Microsoft) is the challenge from the SoftMaker camp. These folks have gotten the file-format compatibility issue licked, and this gives them the freedom to focus on building out their product's already respectable feature set. I wouldn't be surprised if SoftMaker got gobbled up by a major enterprise player in the near, thus creating a viable third way for IT shops seeking to kick the Redmond habit.
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Wow. Somebody who finally gets it. OpenOffice and OpenOffice ODF were not designed to be compatible with Microsoft Office, the MSOffice productivity environment, and, the legacy of binary documents. Softmaker is not the only Office Suite alternative designed for compatibility with MSOffice. ThinkFree Office and Evermore Office are also proof positive that high level compatibility is possible.
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Microsoft and OpenDocument Format - At Last Some Compatibility? - News - eWeekEurope.co.uk - 0 views
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It might have been helpful if Microsoft had targeted instead ODF 1.2,
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Sigh; people don't seem to get that 1.2 doesn't exist ...
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Good-bye and Good Luck II | Part II - 0 views
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Official Statement from the OpenDocument Foundation to OASIS
Good-bye and Good Luck I Part I - 0 views
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Official statement from the OpenDocument Foundation on leaving OASIS
Play the Tape!!!! OpenDocument Format community steadfast despite theatrics of now im... - 0 views
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An honest misunderstanding? Hardly! Play the tape! ... A response to David Berlind relating to false claims made by IBM and the W3C regarding direct correspondence concerning CDF being used as an interchange format. Instead of arguing about who said what when, let's just go to the record and see exactly what the W3C's Doug Schepers said to us in an eMail introducing himself. Keep in mind that we did not contact the W3C or Mr. Schepers. The following eMail was most welcome, but entirely unsolicited.
Microsoft offers Office 2010 file format 'ballot' to stop EU antitrust probe - 0 views
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In a proposal submitted to the European Commission two weeks ago, Microsoft spelled out a range of promises related to Office, its desktop and server software, and other products to address antitrust concerns first expressed by officials in January 2008.
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Beginning with the release of Office [2010], end users that purchase Microsoft's Primary PC Productivity Applications in the EEA [European Economic Area] in both the OEM and retail channel will be prompted in an unbiased way to select default file format (from options that include ODF) for those applications upon the first boot of any one of them," Microsoft said in its proposal [download Word document]
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Microsoft's proposed undertaking for resolving the ECIS complaint to the European Commission regarding its office productivity software can be downloaded from this linked web page. I've given it a quick skim. Didn't see anything in it for anyone but competing big vendors. E.g., no profiling of data formats for interop of less and more featureful implementations, no round-tripping provisions. Still, some major concessions offered.
There is no end, but addition: Alex Brown's weblog - SC 34 Meetings, Jeju Island, Korea... - 0 views
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There seems to be a view abroad that to be a friend of ODF one cannot criticise it. This has done enormous damage, I believe, the result of which will become plain over the coming months as implemenations which are strictly conformant will demonstrate non-substitutablity. When this happens the blame will lie at the feet of the specification.
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Oh my prophetic soul!
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Prophetic indeed, but it didn't even require a crystal ball to see that one coming down the track. There is something about a technical specification that allows the vendor with the largest market share to define it that invites this kind of thing.
Groklaw - When Would You Use OOXML and When ODF? -- What is OOXML For? - 0 views
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The legacy formats are just popped into an OOXML wrapper
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Funny how often this old canard is brought out. Do people really belive it?
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I actually think is is - to some extent - true. Apart from stuff like DrawingML, CustomML etc, OOXML is a transformation of the binary stuff and hence in essence the same document format. "Someone" told me the other day that he had knowledge of a company that didn't use the "xml-ness" of OOXMLto manipulate OOXML-files but simply considered them TEXT-files. They could do this because OOXML is very close to the binary formats.
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True, but the stuff inside is XML -- I think there's a widespread view that OOXML is a lot of lightly wrapped BLOBs
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Ok - you are possibly correct. Somehow content in a file called printerSettings.bin seem to attract higher disturbance than base64-encoded, binary attribute values with attribute name "printerSettings"
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Actually, I think the phrase someone coined that "OOXML is just the binary document formats dressed up in angle brackets" fits just fint :o)
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Whoa, whoa, whoa! - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 01 2009 @ 02:21 AM EDT
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Whoa, whoa, whoa! - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 01 2009 @ 03:17 AM EDT
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It fits just fine for most of the spec but there are also major chunks that include descriptive element and attribute names, for example, the compatibility markup volume. My sense is that these are areas where new features were introduced in Office 2007. But they kind of fly in the face of the Microsoft claims back when that the abbreviated markup was deliberately chosen to maximize execution speed. If so, why isn't all the markup in abbreviated form?
Comment for Jesper on the Groklaw "Digging at those who tell the Truth" article - 0 views
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Lengthy response to Jesper's Groklaw comment. Groklaw rips apart Alex Brown, convenor of the ISO JS34 docuemnt standards group.
Doug Mahugh - 0 views
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This is the state of formula interoperability among ODF spreadsheets today.
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He's right, but I'm not sure this blog posting will attract as much fuss as Rob's red boxes ...
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An implementation is permitted to provide an implicit conversion from string-constant to number. However, the rules by which such conversions take place are implementation-defined. [Example: An implementation might choose to accept "123"+10 by converting the string "123" to the number 123. Such conversions might be locale-specific in that a string-constant such as "10,56" might be converted to 10.56 in some locales, but not in others, depending on the radix point character. end example]
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So in other words, OOXML doesn't say anything about string conversion either.
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