Slashdotted too...
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/03/1414240
~cdriga
Chad Smith wrote:
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.
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CoLeader of OpenOffice.org ES
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