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Robert Weir

freedom bits » FSFE statement at WIPO SCP/13 re/ patents and standardisation - 0 views

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    "Standards always imply wide public access, an openness of the standard in both setting of the standard as well as access to the standard. It is therefore important to realise that an Open Standard would necessarily have to meet higher standards of openness than those provided by article 41 of document SCP/13/2. It is furthermore important to add that 'de facto standards' are typically not standards, but vendor-specific proprietary formats that were, as the secretariat correctly pointed out in the introduction to this discussion, 'strong enough to impose themselves on the market.' It is for this imposition on the market that 'de facto standards' are commonly used to describe monopolistic situations and corresponding absence of competition, which conflict with the basic purpose and function of standards."
Robert Weir

Linux News: Standards: FOSS Debates, Part 2: Standard Deviations - 0 views

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    Linus on standards
Robert Weir

My Personal Blog: ODF as National Standard - 0 views

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    "This morning, i had some opportunity to discuss this issue with Betti Alisjahbana, ex president director of IBM Indonesia, which is now head of AOSI (Indonesian Open Source Association). Her team has been aware of this issue and they have started to move on to make ODF as the standard for office document format. The process might take some time, but at least, there is a significant progress since AOSI was born last year."
Robert Weir

What the Oracle Acquisition of Sun Means for Linux | Linux Developer Network - 0 views

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    "Oracle is a key supporter of open standards such as ODF and we believe this only strengthens that stance. This acquisition could prove fruitful for Open Office and ODF support in the enterprise. Both Oracle and Sun's commitments to open standards based products and services that enable customer choice and effective integration amongst the variety of technology it takes to run a business is a win for technology consumers."
Robert Weir

Goodbye, Microsoft®: Another Reason To Use ODF - 0 views

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    "Your life would be easier if there were a document format that all word processors could use freely, that was created in open debate, publicly documented, and widely accepted as a standard. That's what a group called OASIS set out to create, and in 2006 their "Open Document Format" (ODF) was adopted as an international standard. Lots of word processors, free and commercial, adopted ODF and pledged to support it"
Robert Weir

ODF Plugfest: Open Standards and Interoperability - 0 views

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    "Orvieto last week hosted the second ODF Interoperability Workshop, an international event bringing together ODF implementers from all over the world. My talk "open standards and interoperability" opened the first session on day 1, just after Fabio Pistella - President of the Italian National Center for ICT in Public Administrations (CNIPA) - welcomed the international audience."
Robert Weir

New obligatory IT standards for the state sector adopted - regjeringen.no - 0 views

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    "When exchanging documents as attachments to e-mail between government institutions and users, from 1.1.2011 it will be obligatory to use the document formats PDF or ODF."
Robert Weir

Jochen Friedrich's Open Blog: Relevant link of today: OOXML not suitable for Norwegian ... - 0 views

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    "A study published by the Norwegian "Direktoratet for forvaltning og IKT" (Agency for public adminstration and ICT) comes to the result that OOXML is not suitable for being used by the Norwegian government. The study is available online in Norwegian. Amongst the reasons that are given are that the standard with its more than 6000 pages is not appropriate; it is not suitable for collaboration; and there is only one software that can implement it and produce the respective file format. Norway recommends pdf for electronic document exchange of documents that don't need to be edited and ODF (open document format) for all other documents."
Robert Weir

Logikal Blog » Blog Archive » One Step Closer to Portabel - 0 views

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    " All that is now left to accomplish is to have the OpenDocument standards people realize that embedding the fonts into the document file is a good idea. Once that happens, we will actually have a portable editable document format."
Robert Weir

ODF .NET - 0 views

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    "ODF .NET is Open Document Format API for .NET Framework and .NET Compact Framework. ODF .NET supports Open Document Format standard as defined in the OASIS Open Document Format. ODF .NET allows you to write applications to create, modify and parse text documents and spreadsheets. The API is written in 100% managed C# code."
Robert Weir

XML Connections - 0 views

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    "Our previous post demonstrated how easy it is to create Microsoft Office documents with DataDirect XQuery. Today we'll go through the same exercise for Open Office based on the Open Document standard."
Robert Weir

Three Fixes for Microsoft's Bottom Line 'We' Want | New Software - 0 views

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    "Be sure and make the upcoming free Web version of Office 2010 work with the world-standard Open Document Format (ODF) and the open source OpenOffice and its related alternatives from Day 1. The rest of the world believes in ODF and its lovely file compatibility to make it much easier for users anywhere to share their documents without vendor lock-in and problems. You began working on this in earnest with Office 2007 Service Pack 2, but its time to really hit the ball a mile. No more half attempts just to try to score some points. Instead, make ODF compliance a key feature and watch Office 2010 head out of the sales park. Besides, imagine the goodwill generated by such a statement of cooperation. Just do it."
Robert Weir

Three Fixes for Microsoft's Bottom Line 'We' Want - PC World - 0 views

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    "Be sure and make the upcoming free Web version of Office 2010 work with the world-standard Open Document Format (ODF) and the open source OpenOffice and its related alternatives from Day 1. The rest of the world believes in ODF and its lovely file compatibility to make it much easier for users anywhere to share their documents without vendor lock-in and problems. You began working on this in earnest with Office 2007 Service Pack 2, but its time to really hit the ball a mile. No more half attempts just to try to score some points. Instead, make ODF compliance a key feature and watch Office 2010 head out of the sales park. Besides, imagine the goodwill generated by such a statement of cooperation. Just do it."
Robert Weir

ODF and the Art of Interoperability - Community - ComputerworldUK - 0 views

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    "While OOXML-compliant software seems conspicuous by its absence, ODF goes from strength to strength: there is literally no contest between the rival standards in this respect."
Robert Weir

I, Brentus Esotericus : Communication, Information, and Open Standards - 0 views

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    "[W]e should all be pushing and saving documents as much as possible in the ODF file format. When you send a file out, you could send it in ODF, if the other person doesn't have it yet, then write yours in ODF, and then save later to another format, but send both pushing that person to ODF also (viral acceptance). Make ODF the default. Always import and work again in ODF."
Robert Weir

Standards Matter: The Battle For Interoperability Goes On - 0 views

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    "What Paoli fails to point out, however, is that HTML, PDF, and OOXML have very different use cases. OOXML and ODF directly compete, and having two competing, noninteroperable formats is no benefit."
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