A few weeks ago, FSFE co-launched the Open Parliament petition, along with Esoma and OpenForum Europe. Here’s a summary of why we’re asking you to sign it, and we hope you’ll point others to it. The focus of this petition is to ask the European Parliament to review their policies for choosing software and for Read more »
There’s now an open standards project section on the fsfeurope.org website. There are links to our previous documents, including the ones about ISO and OOXML. Maybe most interesting is that there’s a definition of open standards that we endorse. We didn’t write this definition, but we took part in it’s drafting, and many of our Read more »
Datamation’s James Maguire just published an article with an audience questions session and an interview of Richard Stallman. I think it’s quite interesting. There’s also a page 2 and a page 3. On that kind of topic, Palamida‘s GPLv3 blog reports the number of GPLv3 projects has reached 2,000. I’ll have to look into this Read more »
So, FSFE is concerned about the ISO process, but the ISO process is not over, and the ISO process is not the only process. First, ISO endorsement does not automatically lead to endorsement by national governments. Second, there are still two months during which the ISO votes can be contested – and there are already Read more »
ISO has now approved OOXML. In FSFE, as our press release title says, that makes us concerned about quality of standardisation process; but if you’re like most of the world and haven’t followed every OOXML blog entry from Andy Updegrove, noooxml.org and Groklaw, you may be wondering: what’s wrong with OOXML anyway? I’ll try to Read more »