digg.com - there are 3 OpenOffice.org stories on the frontpage right now.
http://digg.com/software/OpenDocument_is_now_ISO_26300 http://digg.com/technology/Open_Office_s_OpenDocument_format_*BEAT*_Microsoft_to_ISO_Standardization http://digg.com/software/_Get_Legal_-_OpenOffice.Org_Spins_Microsoft_FUD On 5/3/06, Alexandro Colorado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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