Archive for category Standardization
OOXML News So Shocking I Can’t Even Think Of A Headline
Posted by Jason in Microsoft, Standardization on April 2, 2010
The Basic story It turns out that Microsoft isn’t following up the OOXML standard too hard. By “following up” I mean actually following their own superb standard. Coverage on this is already everywhere: I prefer The Standards Blog myself. Context Team Apologista is very big on “context”, so allow me to accommodate: Dr. Alex Brown was the convenor [...]
Document Freedom Day 2010
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Standardization on March 30, 2010
March 31st 2010 is Document Freedom Day, a “global day for document liberation”. I strongly support the idea of document freedom because this it is the concept that helped bring me into the Free Software fold. The Past Two things about documents and computing never made a lot of sense to me: I had to [...]
OSFA: Guidelines for Government
Posted by Jason in Free Software, Standardization on January 20, 2010
Open Source For America is a coalition organized to support and promote Open Source Software use by the US Government. (They are a bit inconsistent in deciding if it is “Open Source” or “Free and Open Source” – both terms are used, the former much more than the latter). One of the strongest arguments against proprietary [...]
FSF praises Dailymotion
Posted by admin in Standardization on August 12, 2009
The FSF has a recent blog entry praising Dailymotion for offering videos in Ogg Theora.
Are you a standards wonk?
Posted by admin in Standardization on August 6, 2009
If you are or want to be, I have a blog to show you!
What “Open” means to Microsoft
Posted by admin in Standardization on August 4, 2009
Recent statements on “Open” give an interesting insight into Microsoft constancy.
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