Apr
03
2008
We’re back to square one, 1 ISO standard on each side of the barricade since Microsoft managed to convince the ISO that its proprietary standard, OOXML’ deserves the approved stamp. For all the money Google and IBM have thrown trying to stop it, it seems they’ve lost this battle. But I’ve learned yesterday from a [...]
Tags: , freedom, iso, microsoft, odf, ooxml, open standards, standards war
Mar
31
2008
If you close your eyes and stay in silence for a few minutes you will hear the echo of the fight engaged by Microsoft against Google and IBM (with many more smaller allies) to dominate the future of office documents. I’m now following from the distance and there is so much dust it’s impossible [...]
Tags: , freedom, iso, microsoft, odf, ooxml, open standards, standards war
Mar
26
2008
A group of free software organizations and companies declared today the Document Freedom Day, a day dedicated to the promotion of Free Document Formats and Open Standards in general. Data lock-in is a very serious issue for knowledge based economy and knowledge workers. All we do is collect data to elaborate information and create [...]
Tags: freedom, fsf, funambol, odf, open standards