Study: Open Document Format made gains in '07
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| ODF Alliance reports that 12 countries and six regional governments have
| adopted 'pro-ODF policies,' and more than 40 applications now support ODF as
| well
|
| [...]
|
| Today, he noted, Microsoft's DOC format, not OOXML, is still dominant. "If
| the question is 'what is the future,' clearly ODF has the lead right now," he
| said.
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/04/Open-Document-Format-gained-momentum_1.html
And it's not just ODF that's making strides.
Improved Ogg Theora coming soon to an Internet near you
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| Xiph.org's people are working on a better Theora encoder, and are aware that
| the best hope for increased Theora spread is not yelling at people to get
| them to use their video delivery system, but in making it work better.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/123869
The future looks open.
Related:
Mozilla, Opera look to make video on the Web easier
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| Firefox and Opera will support a new HTML tag specifically for embedding
| video in Web pages. As long as the browsers support a video's specific codec,
| or encoding method, the browsers will then be able to play the video without
| launching third-party enabling software, said Chris Double, a Mozilla
| engineer. Mozilla and Opera are also working to support the royalty-free
| video codec Ogg Theora.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20071207/tc_infoworld/93898
Beta version of Open-Source video codec Ogg Theora released
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| The source code of the libtheora 1.0 Beta 1 codec library can be downloaded
| from the developer website.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/96667/from/rss09
http://spreadopenmedia.org/
How To Live an Open-Source Musical Life With Ogg Vorbis
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| But with the launch of the FSF's web campaign, the time may be ripe
| for Ogg Vorbis to truly shine. According to Chris "Monty" Montgomery,
| creator of Ogg and founder of the Xiph.org Foundation which oversees
| Ogg's development, such big-name backing has been a long time
| coming.
|
| ... Linux users most likely have Ogg support built in to their machines
| (but you guys already knew that).
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http://www.wired.com/software/coolapps/news/2007/05/playogg
'Play OGG': FSF launches free audio format campaign
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| The Free Software
| Foundation (FSF) today launched PlayOGG.org, a campaign to encourage
| use of the patent- and license-free standard OGG Vorbis as an
| ethically, legally and technically superior audio alternative to
| the proprietary MP3 format.
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http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-fsf/2007-05/msg00001.html
http://www.osnews.com/story.php/17860/Review-The-OGG-Compatible-iRiver-E10
Ogg Vorbis Gaining Industry Support
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| While Ogg Vorbis format has not gained much adoption in music
| sales and portable players, it is not an unsupported format in
| the industry. Toy manufacturers (e.g. speaking dolls), voice
| warning systems, and reactive audio devices exploit Ogg Vorbis
| for its good quality at small bit-rates.
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http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/06/1931244&from=rss
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