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Since I gave a presentation on this topic at the OFE Conference in Geneva at the end of February I have meant to post something about it here. As some of us stated before, if anything, the OOXML debacle has achieved one thing: raising awareness for the need for higher quality standards and standards development processes.

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Free Formats vs. Open Formats

The problem is the same with the W3C standards, but nobody talks about it...

Microsoft patents:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/webservices/aa740689.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/interop/osp/default.mspx

W3C WS-* activities:
http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/

Chair of theHTML Working Group: Chris Wilson, Microsoft.
http://www.w3.org/2006/11/HTML-WG-charter.html
http://disruptive-innovations.com/zoo/customers/W3C/HTML_WG_Charter_revi...

Microsoft slammed over XML patent:
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39200357,00.htm

WS-* == Windows Services Dash Star?
http://tomayko.com/writings/ws-windows-services-dash-star

http://spreadopenmedia.org/2008/04/16/free-formats-vs-open-formats/
"...This isn’t anymore about closed vs. open formats, and you don’t need me to rub it in your face. It’s time to leave those non-free formats behind and look forward for a world of interoperability, a world of doors free to trespass in whatever way you want, and where no one will be able to take that freedom away from anyone else.

tl;dr version: Avoid open standards. They may look like free standards, but they aren’t."

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