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Open letter to digital standards developers, supporters, and advocates

http://www.digistan.org

Industry has always depended on standards and traditional industries have built their standards as part of a slow, controlled, top-down approach to innovation. Industrial-age standards are often heavily patented, complex, and large. They can be expensive to implement and therefore are implementable only for large established firms.

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Louis Suarez-Potts: OOXML Has Zero Effect On ODF

http://www.efytimes.com

ODF as a default format was first adopted by OpenOffice.org (OOo). Naturally, when OOXML’s approval cast a doubt on ODF, we sought reactions of the OOo team, on how they viewed the future of OOo, ODF and OOXML. Thus, this interview, which was conducted over a series of e-mails, with Louis Suarez-Potts, community manager, OpenOffice.org.

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Patents in a Standard and Standards That Won’t Inter-operate

http://boycottnovell.com

Digistan has just published an open letter signed by some high-level figures. It calls for people to adopt the right approach in the embrace of open standards. It’s worth a quick glance.

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Microsoft Literally Pays ISO (Sponsors ISO Meeting) (Corrected)

http://boycottnovell.com

There was clearly a transaction of money made by Microsoft in Norway, which passed it on to ISO.

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ODF Validation for Dummies

http://www.robweir.com

Alex Brown has a problem. He can't figure out how to validate ODF documents. Unfortunately, when he couldn't figure it out, he didn't ask the OASIS ODF TC for help, which would have been the normal thing to do.

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Has OOXML Broken the British Standards Institution?

http://www.computerworlduk.com

Standards are supposed to be about a process of creating points of reference that people can rely upon, arrived at through a process of careful honing and consensus. Against this background, the manner in which Microsoft's OOXML has been put through the ISO has been astonishing.

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OOXML expert: ODF standard is broken

http://news.zdnet.co.uk

The International Organization for Standardization's OpenDocument Format standard is broken and needs to be mended, according to an expert who claims to have carried out tests on the format.

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South Africa adopts ODF as a national standard

http://www.tectonic.co.za

The South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) on Friday approved the Open Document Format (ODF) as an official national South African standard. The adoption of ODF by South Africa opens the way for the businesses and government to adopt ODF more widely in their processes. ODF is already an international standard, approved by the International Standards Organisation, or ISO.

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Incompetent Standards Organisation (ISO) Further Criticised, Case Being Independently Built

http://boycottnovell.com

A newly-appointed patent bomb gardener, better known as ISO, is unlikely to get much rest. Standards experts continue to have it harshly criticised, but they are gentle and polite. Andy Updegrove uses some sense of humour in response to ISO’s horrific FAQ.

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ISO Fantasy

http://www.tbray.org

There has been much rejoicing recently at the process whereby, apparently, an ISO committee takes full control of OOXML. But you know, that story is entirely irrelevant. It will have no effect on what implementors of OOXML, including Microsoft, should or will actually do. The story’s ending will I think be mostly tawdry.

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Will OpenOffice.org support OOXML ?

http://lodahl.blogspot.com

The answer is no! The purpose is not to support an academic developed file format, but to help the pour users who by accident get hands on a document from Microsoft Office 2007.

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A world of beautiful broken toys

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com

Proprietary culture dumps a lot of disappointing experiences on me. I really had this brought home to me by a couple of toys my daughter received for Christmas this year, which just refused to work with our family’s Debian-based computers, and I have to wonder: what are these experiences teaching our children?

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CSS Naked Day '08

http://naked.dustindiaz.com

"...The idea behind this event is to promote Web Standards. Plain and simple. This includes proper use of (x)html, semantic markup, a good hierarchy structure, and of course, a good 'ol play on words. It's time to show off your body. [...] Fill out the naked day signup form, then your website will be included in the official list within the next hour.

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Canada Tells Why It Voted No on OOXML & How ISO Must Improve

http://www.groklaw.net

Canada has its public statement announcing its OOXML vote and why it voted Disapprove with Comments

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Final Decision on OOXML (at ISO Level) Still Two Months Away

http://www.boycottnovell.com

We warned about this just a couple of days ago. Despite the fact that there are antitrust investigations [1, 2, 3] and loads of scrutiny at the highest of levels, Microsoft and ECMA bombarded the press with premature celebrations, leading to the false conclusion that all is said and done. Not so fast though!

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