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Open Document Format Prevails For Now
ConsortiumInfo.org – Microsoft Office 2007 to Support ODF – and not OOXML OpenDocument and OOXMLMicrosoft today announced that it would update Office 2007 to natively support ODF 1.1, but not to...
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ODF less work for M$ than OOXML. Hilarious.
OOXML backwards compatibility led Microsoft to ODF | Tech News on ZDNet In Microsoft’s announcement, the company said it was adding native support for ODF due to increasing pressure from customers “and...
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The Future of Copyright
Cato Unbound » Blog Archive » The Future of Copyright A very condensed version of copyright history could look like this: texts (1800), works (1900), tools (2000). Originally the law was designed to...
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Norwegian standards body implodes over OOXML controversy
Norwegian standards body implodes over OOXML controversy Standards Norway, the organization that manages technical standards for the Scandinavian country, took a serious blow last week when key members...
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Twitter building on open source
At Twitter, two open source projects, Kestrel and Cache-Money keep things growing. In some cases, our requirements—in particular, the scalability requirements of our service—lead us to develop projects...
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Michael Tiemann talks about open source and government
Michael Tiemann is a true open source pioneer and Red Hat’s VP of Open Source Affairs. He recently spoke to the BBC about open source principles applied to government. So just how receptive will the...
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Go Ogg, go!
Mozilla contributes $100,000 to fund Ogg development – Ars Technica Mozilla has given the Wikimedia Foundation a $100,000 grant intended to fund development of the Ogg container format and the Theora...
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Mozilla’s Chris Blizzard on open video
Mozilla’s Director of Evangelism, Chris Blizzard writes about why open video is important. The result of that has been an explosion of creativity and investment from single individuals all the way up...
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Red Hat and Microsoft Expand Server Virtualization Interoperability
Red Hat and Microsoft Expand Server Virtualization Interoperability. In response to strong customer demand, Red Hat and Microsoft have signed reciprocal agreements to enable increased interoperability...
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Open Source, Open Standards and Re–Use in the UK
Tom Watson, MP, Minister for Digital Engagement Open Source has been one of the most significant cultural developments in IT and beyond over the last two decades: it has shown that individuals,...
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