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Jazz, Jazz Standards, and Open Source
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| Is one type of standard better than another?
| Clearly not; they simply serve different
| goals. The art, as in so many things, is to
| find the right balance (even in the second
| type of standard) between ensuring
| usability, while enabling beneficial
| creativity.
|
| This need for balance is recognized in one
| of the core tenets of modern standard
| setting, applauded by competitors, antitrust
| authorities and economists alike. That tenet
| goes something like this: vendors should be
| encouraged to collaborate on the creation of
| the standards necessary to enable new goods
| and services to be offered, and then compete
| in the creation of additional value-added
| features that will distinguish their
| particular wares in the marketplace from
| each other. And, in fact, this is exactly
| what does happen all of the time.
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http://www.consortiuminfo.org/bulletins/#considerthis
News Corp, Time, others detail e-standard venture
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| News Corp, Time Warner Inc's Time Inc and
| three other publishers detailed their long-
| expected plans to develop open standards for
| a new digital storefront and technology to
| help prepare their print titles for devices
| ranging from e-books to tablet computers.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/08/AR2009120801921.html
Recent:
Open formats over open words
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| There are some file formats which are published,
| open standards. Portable Document Format (PDF)
| is one you've probably heard of. HyperText
| Markup Language (HTML) is another. OpenDocument
| Format (ODF) is an ISO international standard,
| and the tools to use that format are free. But
| there are other file formats which are
| proprietary, and can only be edited natively in
| one specific application. The formats used by
| Microsoft Word (DOC and lately DOCX) come to
| mind. WordPerfect (WPS) is another program which
| uses a proprietary file format to store
| information.
|
| If I receive a PDF or HTML file, I can open it
| in a wide variety of applications, some of which
| are both well designed and obtainable for free.
| But if I'm sent a WPS or DOCX, I need the
| specific application that was used to create the
| file to open it reliably. Requiring me to have
| certain computer software doesn't seem very
| inclusive. âBut everybody has Microsoft Word!â
| you might be thinking to yourself. Is that the
| same âeverybodyâ who celebrates Christmas? Think
| about that.
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http://imprint.uwaterloo.ca/2009/nov/27/opinion/open-formats-over-open-words/
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