Or both? ALEX Brown is pretending that all is fine and dandy with OOXML (he even shows a picture of a smiling face), despite all the OOXML corruption which had people protest out in the streets.
Read more »OOXML BRM Convenor or OOXML Cheerleader?
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Microsoft Office Crimes and Offenses Against Standards
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THE latest Microsoft Office crime happens to have earned Microsoft a conviction, unlike so many OOXML crimes that the European Commission has not yet addressed. Justice is slow, but sometimes it eventually arrives. There continues to be a lot of coverage of this all over the Web. The coverage which comes from ITWire calls it "price-fixing" and "collusion".
Read more »ODF Alliance Rectifies Things: Triumph of ODF in Kerala Attributed to Free Software Supporters
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A LITTLE INCIDENT which was mentioned at the end of March has ended more peacefully. Anivar explains why...
Read more »ODF Award Insults the Community, Rewards Proponent of Non-Free Software
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An ODF award is granted to a man who seems to have harmed Free software and contributed little or nothing to ODF
Read more »Microsoft is Still Fighting to Suppress OpenDocument Format
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Microsoft unleashes lobbyists to fight ODF despite pretending to have changed
Read more »Have An Interest in Government Adoption of Open Standards?
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I've been contacted by a government agency that is seeking input on the question of what definition of openness it should adopt for that state. Obviously, it's in part about ODF/OOXML.
Read more »Insight into Venezuela’s Commitment to Open Standards
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We have reported extensively about the Venezuelan government’s support of open formats in the area of information technology. But it was only recently that the National Center of IT (CNTI) made it mandatory for the public sector to use open formats (ODT, ODS, ODP, ODG).
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ODF Alliance Newsletter: Latvia and UK Join the ODF Bandwagon
Huge 180 in Favour of Free Software and ODF in the UK
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The Labour party has just made very significant changes to its IT policy
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Document FreedomDay is coming
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Document Freedom Day will be on 25 March 2009. After DFD '08 was a huge success with 205 teams around the world organising various activities to promote Document Freedom, now is the time to start planning for DFD '09.
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Malaysia Saves with Free Software and ODF, Europe Rises Against Microsoft
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Update on OOXML, ODF, OpenOffice.org deployments, and OpenOffice.org FUD from Novell
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AbiWord’s Embrace of OpenDocument Format Increased, Gets Funding from NLnet
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AbiWord to improve ODF support; OOXML has DRM; antitrust exhibit returns
Read more »How ODF is Like JDK: Why Microsoft Supports ODF 1.1 and Not ODF 1.2
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Bill Gates snubbed JDK 1.2 and chose the older version, 1.1, instead
Read more »Microsoft EEE
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Microsoft's ODF tactics and Netscape; New example of Microsoft 'open source' deception
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