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Document Freedom Day: Passion and politics
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| Incidentally, an Italian court ruled
| yesterday that public authorities in
| Italy's Piedmont region can legally
| maintain a preference for Free Software in
| their purchasing decisions. The court
| considered that such a requirement refers
| to a characteristic of the software, rather
| than to a specific product or technology.
|
| This should give a further boost to public
| bodies that want to use Free Software and
| Open Standards. It should also remove an
| obstacle for those that are interested, but
| haven't yet made the jump.
|
| In this context, Document Freedom Day is a
| day of hope. It shows that people around
| the world are passionate about Open
| Standards, Free Software, and the freedom
| to use technology as they wish. Governments
| in Europe and elsewhere should take note.
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http://opensource.com/government/10/3/document-freedom-day-passion-and-politics
Document Freedom Day - March 31st, 2010
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| Today (March 31st) is Document Freedom Day,
| and I encourage everyone to talk about
| Document Freedom with all of your friends,
| and even your enemies.
|
| In 1973 I worked for Aetna Life and
| Casualty, at that time the âlargest
| commercial user of IBM equipment in the
| Free Worldâ. We did not know what the
| government was using, and we did not know
| what the Russians were using, but other
| than that, Aetna was the largest.
|
| [...]
|
| One day I was finding out where a series of
| magnetic tapes were located for a project
| that I was working on and I typed the tape
| numbers into the mainframe. Eventually I
| was finished, and curious, I typed in the
| tape number â000001â. The machine came
| back:
|
| TAPE NOT LOCATED
|
| I typed in â000002â.
|
| TAPE NOT LOCATED
|
| Being persistent (some people unkindly say
| I am âstubbornâ), I typed in â000003â:
|
| TAPE NUMBER 000003 IS LOCATED AT IDAHO SALT
| MINE, 500 FT, 7-TRACK, 128 BITS PER INCH,
| RETENTION PERIOD 999999, DATASET NAME:
| INCORPORATIONPAPERS
|
| Astonished at this, I went to my boss and
| said âTom, how in the world are we ever
| going to read this magnetic tape in the
| future?â Tom looked at me wisely and said,
| âNo problem. If we ever have to read that
| tape we have a seven-track tape drive
| wrapped in bubble-wrap at the salt mine
| too.â
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http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Paw-Prints-Writings-of-the-maddog/Document-Freedom-Day-March-31st-2010
Freedom! (Document-wise)
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| So of course this is all hinting at ODF
| (OpenDocument Format), which has a
| specification (v.1.1) and a process for
| updating the specification when needed. I
| believe the specification itself has its
| issues â it really is difficult to specify
| syntax and semantics with rigor â but it
| gets the job done and, most importantly, is
| written in good faith and available for
| everyone to implement on a royalty-free
| basis. The latter is important because we
| want to play by the rules but also need to
| enable current and future implementations
| of tools that use the document format
| without restrictions.
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http://blogs.fsfe.org/adridg/?p=771
Created with Free Software! A button to spread the word
http://blog.hartwork.org/?p=672
Document Freedom Day 2010
http://fsfe.org/news/2010/news-20100331-01.en.html
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