So who really wants M$’ dodgy standard anyway?
Wow! I just came across this interesting statistical site today: www.odf-eag.eu/odf-metrics and there are some real corkers: Developers & Interested Parties at Aug 07 working with: MSOOXML: 600...
View ArticleNorway says yes to Open Standards in IT
Following on from the very recent announcement from the Netherlands, the government of Norway has also stipulated that all public documents MUST be available in open standard file formats. [The English...
View ArticlePetition for ODF at the National Archive
Thanks to Russell Ossendryver for pointing this out. Recently it was announced that National Archives are converting their stock of electronic documents into Microsoft Open XML format. This format is...
View ArticleAcronyms Galore: But EIF v2.0 (draft) warrants your attention
Bob Sutor, encourages all Europeans … who are interested in open standards and interoperability [to] look at, comment, and, if appropriate, express their support for this draft or portions thereof....
View ArticleOOXML: Flogging a Dead Horse
I am continually amazed by the amount of time, energy and expense that the ISO are going to to support the standard that nobody really wants or believes (in except for one corporation and it’s paid...
View ArticleVietnam: Will be 100% Open Source
I know this isn’t exactly “new” news, (it’s 2 days old and has appeared on /. I understand) but to me it is really important and should be shouted from the rooftops. VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of...
View ArticleOOXML Fataly Flawed?
Thanks to Roy’s tenacity and constant vigilance, I have learned how it now appears the MS Office binary format that is wrapped in XML and is now known as IS 29500 (OOXML), an ISO Standard Office...
View ArticleOn the ‘Open Source, Open Standards and Re-Use: UK Government Action Plan’
As anyone interested in the politics and wider adoption of FOSS will know by now, the UK Government recently released an updated policy statement regarding “Open Source and Open Standards”. I made a...
View ArticleOOXML: Nobody knows (or cares) what it is for or why.
I’ve not penned much on OOXML for quite a while mainly because there really doesn’t seem to be much interest in it outside of a small circle of Microsoft lackeys and puppy dogs. Even MS themselves are...
View ArticleSoftware Patents: The new MAD
With the recent news of Microsoft being told to stop selling MS Word in the US due to it’s infringement of a patent owned by i4i I am really hopeful that perhaps, just perhaps, someone will start to...
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