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B Gruff <bbgruff@xxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> On Wednesday 05 July 2006 07:16 Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> __/ [ B Gruff ] on Tuesday 04 July 2006 20:12 \__
>>
>>> On Tuesday 04 July 2006 19:29 Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>
>>>> Europe warms to OpenDocument format
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>> | OpenDocument Format initiatives in Belgium, France, and Denmark
>>>> | indicate growing support for the for office productivity application
>>>> | format standard, according to the ODF Alliance.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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> http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=D275D260-7E67-46BB-B84E-1D573AC5898E
>>>
>>> Oh yes:-)
>>
>> With these South Korean stirups and the connection with the UE/EC, it will
>> sooner or later penetrate Asia as well. Wait and see. The States will be
>> the last to convert. Australia/NZ are already becoming Linux-friendly.
>> (South) Africa likewise.
>
> I know I know - I'm watching it, almost as we speak.
> I'm sure the trolls would say it's wishful thinking, but (thanks in part to
> you efforts in this group) I'm well aware of the accelerating trend. Also
> that Linux is maybe third in the (=my) list of importance, behind Open
> Standards, then the concept of Open S/W....
>
Open standards are a subset of open-source for pretty much any
state-machine entity (which includes pretty much everything which runs
on a PC, of course), the difference being that open-standards typically
have been used to promote a lock-in approach, by ensuring that there's
sufficient ambiguity in the standards that actual implementations do not
interoperate terribly well - vendors tend to then claim that the "extra"
bits are their "value add" == lock-in.
Open-source gets around that as it is able to specify state-machine
operation in sufficient detail that the ambiguity is significantly
reduced, such that inter-operability is far more likely, and the
potential for lock-in reduced appropriately.
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