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Public review of âThe State of ODF Interoperabilityâ
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| The initial âState of ODF
| Interoperabilityâ report has now gone out
| for public review. It is a baseline
| report, surveying the context of document
| interoperability, the sources of
| interoperability problems as well the ways
| in which these problems are being
| addressed. Although it explicitly deals
| with ODF interoperability, much of the
| report is equally relevant to any other
| office document format, XML-based or
| binary.
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http://www.robweir.com/blog/2010/03/state-of-odf-interoperability.html
Time to Learn from China on Open Standards?
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| One of the major battles under way in
| Europe is over open standards. As its name
| suggests, an open standard is one that is
| open to all, without restrictions or
| obstacles; anything less than that is just
| window-dressing.
|
| In particular, if any part of the standard
| is encumbered with patents, these must be
| available on a royalty-free basis:
| âReasonable And Non-Discriminatory (RAND)â
| is not good enough, since RAND licences
| with non-zero fees, however minute, *do*
| discriminate against open source using
| licences like the GNU GPL.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=2852
Recent:
The Parliament said: ODF only
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| Today the Danish Parliament said ODF only for
| public administration. The Minister of Science
| doesn't agree, so he will ask the Minister of
| Finance for advice. The Government is afraid
| that the decision will be too expensive.
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http://lodahl.blogspot.com/2009/11/parliament-said-odf-only.html
DK: Chair of Denmark's standards committee: 'Microsoft is lying'
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| Mogens KÃhn Pedersen, chair of the Danish
| Standards Committee, says Microsoft is
| lying when it says it will implement ISO
| OOXML in the next version of its suite of
| office applications.
|
| On Saturday Pedersen accused the software
| vendor of lying, in an article by the
| Danish news site Business.dk, part of the
| newspaper Berlingske Tidene. Pedersen,
| professor of Informatics at the Copenhagen
| Business School, on Monday afternoon
| confirmed his statement: "I realise these
| are blunt remarks to make as chair of the
| committee, but when you advise the
| government you have to tell the truth."
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http://www.osor.eu/news/dk-chair-of-denmarks-standards-committee-microsoft-is-lying
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