“By migrating from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice.org we had to take our productivity environment to a higher level, so that the migration would not be perceived as a mere replacement but as a genuine improvement. The OpenOffice.org user doesn’t need to leave the OpenOffice.org application or start another application. This effectively eliminates the borders between template management and document collaboration for teams, projects and departments. We are focused on the user and on the usability of the applications we use. With O3Spaces Workplace we’ve found a fully integrated document management, collaboration environment that till now couldn’t be found on the market”, says Hiemstra.
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ongoing · On XML Language Design - 0 views
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Excellent discussion of XML languages, how they are created, and what needs to be considered for a language to be successful
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Excellent discussion of XML languages, how they are created, and what needs to be considered for a language to be successful
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Excellent discussion of XML languages, how they are created, and what needs to be considered for a language to be successful
Brendan's Roadmap Updates: My @media Ajax Keynote - 0 views
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Standards often are made by insiders, established players, vendors with something to sell and so something to lose. Web standards bodies organized as pay-to-play consortia thus leave out developers and users, although vendors of course claim to represent everyone fully and fairly. I've worked within such bodies and continue to try to make progress in them, but I've come to the conclusion that open standards need radically open standardization processes. They don't need too many cooks, of course; they need some great chefs who work well together as a small group. Beyond this, open standards need transparency. Transparency helps developers and other categories of "users" see what is going on, give corrective feedback early and often, and if necessary try errant vendors in the court of public opinion.
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Brendan's comment about the open standards process and the control big vendors have over that process is exactly right. The standards contsortia are pay to play orgs controlled entirely by big vendors. OASIS and the OpenDocuemnt Technical Committee are not exceptions to this problematic and troublesome truth.
The First Law of the Internet is that Interoperability trumps everything - including innovation. The problem with vendor driven open standards is that innovation ontinually trumps interoperability. So much so that interop is pretty much an after thought - as is the case with ODF and OOXML!
The future of the Open Web will depend on open source communities banding together with governemnts and user groups to insist on the First Law of the Internet: Interoeprability. If they don't, vendors will succeed in creating slow moving web standards designed to service their product lines. Vendor product lines compete and are differentiated by innovative features. Interoeprability on the other hand is driven by sameness - the sharing of critical features. Driving innovation down into the interop layer is what the open standards process should be about. But as long as big vendors control that process, those innovations will reside at the higher level of product differentiation. A level tha tcontinues to break interoperability!
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Jeremy Allison: Einstein's definition of insanity... - 0 views
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But standards don't rule the computing world. Today, ninety-two per cent of desktops and seventy per cent of servers run the proprietary and non-standardized Microsoft Windows OS.
Open Document Format Wars at xentek.net - Eric Marden - 0 views
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What is quite remarkable, if not a little confusing, is that an organization would not only put the brakes on a format it helped created - but do so publicly and authentically, as soon as they realized that the end result was not what they set out for it to be. Many organizations would just sweep such thoughts under the rug, and keep to their dead end strategy - afraid to admit the wrong turn they took at Albuquerque. I have to applaud the leadership body of the Open Document Foundation for having the courage to stand for what they believe. Bravo.
Open Document Foundation Closes « Wretyz15's Digital Tech Blog - Flock - 0 views
Greg McNevin : Open Document Foundation Abandons Namesake, Closes up Shop - 0 views
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The decision to go with CDF has left some industry commentators scratching their heads, with arstechnica.com’s Ryan Paul noting that the decision is curious as CDF doesn't support “the full range of functionality required for office compatibility”. Paul does add, however, that the formats broad use of formats such as XHTML and SVG does give it a compelling edge.
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The W3C's Chris Lilley, IBM and the lawyer for OASIS have been making quite a bit of noise claiming that CDF doesn't support "the full range of functionality required for office compatibility".
This a strange claim, especially when considering IBM as the primary source. CDF WiCD Full 1.0 is a desktop profile for CDF. Other profiles include WICD Mobile and WICD Core. The call for implementations for WICD core, mobile and full went out on Monday, November 12, 2007.
To understand cdf, one must first get a handle on the terms used to describe cdf technologies.
..... CDF= compound document formats
..... CDRF= compound document by reference framework
..... WICD = Web Integration Compound Document
..... CDR using WICD = Compound Document by Reference using a WICD profile, (Core, Full or Mobile)
..... Compound Document by Reference Framework 1.0
..... WICD Core 1.0
..... WICD Mobile 1.0 Profile
..... WICD Full 1.0 Profile
The WICD Full 1.0 Profile is the "DESKTOP" profile for CDF.
Some interesting Quotes:
"WICD Full 1.0 is targeted at desktop agents".
"The WICD Full 1.0 profile is designed to enable rich multimedia content on desktop and high capability handheld agents."
From the Compound Document by Reference Use Cases and Requirements Version 1.0 :
"The capability to view documents with preserved formatting, layout, images and graphics and interactive features such as zooming in and out and multi-page handling."
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WICD Full 1.0 - CDF Desktop Profile - 0 views
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WICD Full 1.0 is targeted at desktop agents
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The WICD Full 1.0 profile is designed to enable rich multimedia content on desktop and high capability handheld agents.
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The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "may", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 (see http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt). However, for readability, these words do not appear in all uppercase letters in this specification.
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This will make marbux happy!
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Now this is interesting. I wonder if IBM and the OASIS Lawyer have seen this page?
Look what Google can do now: OOXML! - 0 views
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Instead of dialing 411 on your phone and paying the service fee, dial 800-GOOG-411
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Send the name of the business and the city or the ZIP code to GOOGLE. (Type GOOGLE into the address or number field, like you would if you were using a phone number.) Google will text you back with the address and phone number.
Alan Cox on open-source development vs. proprietary development | The Open Road - The B... - 0 views
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Ophelia explains he possessed at one time a "noble mind" and was a "soldier," and a "scholar" – all the terms by which any young man at that time would like to be known (3.1.64). Now, though, Hamlet lashes out at others, speaks harshly with those to whom he is supposedly close, and even thoughtlessly kills a man.
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Ouch!
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Though Hamlet fails to disclose his reasoning behind displaying the "antic disposition," his words and actions point to a few possible motives
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aha! Ulterior motives!
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though this be madness, yet there is method in 't"
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GOSCON Goes Global with Open Document Controversy - 0 views
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Open Document Format The panel discussion will focus on a single question: what should the user community do, what actions should they take in light of competing Open Document Formats? Each of our industry experts will be asked to present their practical response.
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GOSCON panel moderator Andy Stein has decided to kick it open, and let the public question the five participants from IBM, Sun, Microsoft, Adobe and those guys without a garage, the OpenDocument Foundation.
XML 2007 Conference - Boston MA, Dec 3-5 - 0 views
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XML 2007 Conference XML 2007 is the world’s largest and longest-running conference devoted to XML and other open data and document technologies. Our theme for 2007 is XML in Practice, focusing on the lessons learned from implementing XML in production-grade systems. When? Monday 3 December–Wednesday 5 December 2007 Where? Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA
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Check out the schedule. There are some really interesting topics to be covered. Microsof tand Sun are also going to have a session on application level interoperability and why multiple standards are better than one.
How A PAID IBM Lobbyist Orchestrates The Worldwide Search for a Standard Document Format - 0 views
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Open Means Open For a document format to be considered "open," it should be fully implemented by many different vendors, interoperable, fully published, and available royalty free without intellectual property restrictions. Microsoft's OOXML continues to fail this test. For example, the comments from the British Standards Institute pointed out that "there was no other proven implementation of OOXML apart from Office 2007." Unless and until there is another proven implementation, any government beginning to use OOXML would be faced with only one option. This is contrary to the objective of government open standards policies. Open standards policies are proliferating as governments seek to create IT architectures that rely on open standards to allow multiple vendors to compete directly based on the features and performance of their products. What governments obviously need are open standards that enable technology solutions that are portable and that can be removed and replaced with that of another vendor with minimal effort and without major interruption.
Hyprocrisy 101 - 0 views
Linux News: Software: OpenDocument Foundation Abandons Namesake Format - Flock - 0 views
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Soured Relationships "What's happened is that there's just not a lot of interest in their approach, and that has resulted in a lot of souring of relationships on the part of the OpenDocument Foundation folks," Douglas Johnson, standards manager at Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: JAVA) , told LinuxInsider. The about-face in support should not have a significant effect on the move toward open standards, Johnson added. The OpenDocument Foundation's decision to support CDF, however, is puzzling, Johnson said. 'I'm Perplexed' "It doesn't seem like a good fit," he explained. "It's not designed for this, so I'm perplexed at their desire to go in that direction."
Inside PDF: CDF - 0 views
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The real technical content of the CDF recommendations is in details of how to glue these various (XML markup) languages together once they all have been processed into their respective DOMs. It establishes conventions for how a script might reach across DOM boundaries, how events might get propagated across DOM boundaries and stuff like that. I won't go into this any deeper because you will get more accurate information by just reading the W3C documents. But the main idea of CDF is to bring these variously defined content types into a uniform "framework" so that scripts can operate more at a document level instead of being confined to their own document child.
Play the tape!!! The W3C eMails to the Foundation tell a differenct story | OpenDocumen... - 0 views
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An honest misunderstanding? Hardly! Play the tape! 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.
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The W3C's Doug Schepers joins the discussion claiming that the Foundation misunderstood his eMail messages. We say otherwise!
There is of course one way to settle this: PLAY THE TAPE!
So here it is.
~ge~
Europe: Microsoft's behavior has changed, interop docs already complete | Tech Policy &... - 0 views
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"In light of changes in Microsoft's behaviour, the increased opportunity for third parties to exercise their rights directly before national courts and experience gained since the adoption of the 2004 Decision," this morning's statement reads, "the Commission no longer requires a full time monitoring trustee to assess Microsoft's compliance. In future, the Commission intends to rely on the ad hoc assistance of technical consultants. "Microsoft has an ongoing obligation to supply complete and accurate interoperability information as specified in the Commission's 2004 Microsoft Decision," the EC goes on. "However, given that the original set of interoperability information has already been documented by Microsoft, increased opportunities through private enforcement provisions in Microsoft's license agreements for third parties to exercise their rights directly before national courts, and experience gained since the adoption of the 2004 Decision, the nature of the technical assistance that the Commission requires is now of a more ad hoc character."
The Document Interoperability Initiative: "DII" - 0 views
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Vendor - developer group sponsored by Microsoft ... "What's seriously lacking is a conversion or locking of scripts, macros, OLE, data - media bindings, and security settings .... the logic parts so important to any business process or productivity environment setting embedded in the original MSOffice document."
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