On Wed, 03 May 2006 08:59:51 -0500, Simon Phipps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Congratulations. It's official!
My colleague in our international standards team writes: "the OASIS Open
Document Format spec is now an international standard. Its designation
is ISO/IEC 26300. It passed without oppostion. (There were a few
abstentions.) There was very broad support worldwide."
This is a landmark moment for the Free/Open Source Software movement. An
innovation that started here - the OpenDocument family of file formats -
has been reviewed, adopted and now endorsed at the highest level as an
international standard. We now have a standard for productivity
documents that is recognised by governments (there is a little more
bureaucracy to handle, as Andy Updegrove reports[1], but the standard is
official).
If we wish, we can now draw a base-line across the productivity tools
market and tell our suppliers we will not tolerate further competition
and lock-in below that line. Innovation above that line is desirable -
expected, even - but attempts to force upgrade, lock out competition,
control my own use of my own data, are all now unacceptable. We have the
tools of freedom in our hands. Time to use them.
digg story: http://digg.com/software/OpenDocument_is_now_ISO_26300
S.
[1] http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?
story=20060503080915835
This are great news, and I think this will definetly give a faster track
on some government administrations . So far there has been a strong push
on some state governments in the US after the MA series of events.
--
Alexandro Colorado
CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES
http://es.openoffice.org
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