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Massachusetts: thumbs up for lock-in
While FSFE was busy holding its 2007 general assembly in Brussels, Belgium, the world kept spinning. In this case backwards, unfortunately. After the state of Massachusetts had become famous for its clear-sighted move towards Open Standards in general and the … Continue reading
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Six questions to national standardisation bodies
It seems that many people have been confused by Microsoft’s attempt at trying to portray MS-OOXML as an Open Standard, which includes methods such as paying bloggers to manipulate Wikipedia or trying to confuse people about competition on the basis … Continue reading
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NZZ: War of Standards (in German)
The Swiss newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) has an interesting article "Krieg der Standards" ("War of Standards") about the MS-OOXML vs ODF debate. This is an article worth reading, as it exposes quite well the issues of standardisation, the dangers … Continue reading
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Why more standards mean less competition
The Open Forum Europe (OFE), one of Europe’s industry groups, has published a white paper on Dual Standards that is available for download as PDF. Since Microsoft is making the claim that competition on standards is a good thing, this … Continue reading
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Last night in India
Tonight is my last night in India after one and a half extremely busy weeks that took me to Mumbai, Calcutta and Trivandrum and allowed me to meet some old and new friends in the global Free Software community. Since … Continue reading
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Update on OpenXML vs ODF
Thanks to one of my favorite web comics, Everybody loves Eric Raymond, I discovered two rather interesting articles in the OpenXML and ODF debate. The first article is by Miguel de Icaza from end of January in which he says … Continue reading
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OpenXML back on fast-track
Groklaw has an article that OpenXML is back on the fast-track for ISO certification, ignoring an usually high number of objections from various countries: *She* decided? So the objections process is an elaborate waltz with no purpose? Why even have … Continue reading
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Netzpolitik-Interview: Sechs Jahre Free Software Foundation Europe
For all Fellows capable of reading German, Netzpolitik.org,a favorit source of news about the social and political issues in the knowledge society, has an interview with me on the occasion of six years Free Software Foundation Europe. Vor sechs Jahren … Continue reading
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Irony, cynicism or simply “cara de pau”?
Imagine a fox building “fox and chicken can be friends” ads from the feathers of slaughtered chicken. Would this be irony or cynicism, or possibly both? I had the same problem when I saw the following ad: Microsoft is a … Continue reading
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When governments mandate proprietary software
Software is increasingly essential to communicate with our governments, and the choice of that software is a very sensitive issue in a democracy. There is always a danger of undermining the right of the citizens to freely communicate with the … Continue reading
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