OpenDocument and OOXMLWith fewer than 48 hours to go throughout most of the world, only a small percentage of the 87 countries that voted last summer on OOXML have announced whether they will stand by, or change, the votes that they cast during the original six month voting period.
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FOSSFA urges African nations to abstain in OOXML ballot
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The Free Software and Open Source Foundation for Africa (FOSSFA) has called on African governments and standards bodies to abstain in the balloting, due to close Saturday, on whether a file format based on Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) should be an international standard.
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Squaring the Net, op-ed by Christophe Espern
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"The French parliament will soon debate a draft law "about the High Authority for the dissemination of works and protection of the rights on the internet". The project incorporates the recommendations made by the then CEO of FNAC (biggest CD and DVD retail stores in France), Denis Olivennes. One of the key measures is to sanction a violation of copyright by cutting access to the Internet.
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Include ODF support in the Linux Standard Base?
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The whole world, me included, seems to have become obsessed by Microsoft and its only partially-open, only partially-XML, document format.
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A hard problem: expanding open source to include patents
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Simon Phipps proposes a hard problem: expanding the definition of "open source" to include patents.
The easy part is dealing with any patents that are actually licensable by the person or company who is licensing the code. To get to a new "definition" you could say that copyright licenses that don't also grant a patent license must be accompanied by a patent license grant.
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Standards expert defends OOXML fast-track bid
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A European standards expert has defended the move to fast-track the International Organization for Standardization approval process for Microsoft's Office Open XML document standard, dismissing criticisms that the decision to do so is flawed and unfair.
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Fear! That should work!
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After I gave my presentation on the BRM, and after Ditesh gave his technical evaluation of the resolutions, the TC4 Chair opened the meeting to the floor. Mr Cheong Yuk Wai, from IASA Malaysia, volunteered. We expected him to delve into the technical matters which Microsoft should have braindumped him.
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Is the AGPL half-empty, or half-full?
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The GNU Affero GPL, released in November 2007 and approved by the OSI this month, is being viewed as both closure of a GPL loophole and as a tool to truly transfer the collaborative and community benefits of GPL to the software-as-a-service model. AGPLv3 closes a loophole that many would have preferred to see addressed by the GPLv3.
Read more »ISO approval: A good process gone bad
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You may have read our background article about ODF and OOXML and why Red Hat believes OOXML should not be approved as an ISO standard. This time, we focus on how the standardization process has been compromised at ISO.
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[ubuntu-in] Is Shipping Ubuntu To INDIA Illegal????
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OK, this is really weird. If you want to import something to India, it seems it must have a price, otherwise...
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No consensus over OOXML in Poland, yet
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Last Thursday PKN (Polish Normalization Committee) had a meeting on which it was supposed to come up with the decision concerning Polish recommendation for ISO/IEC DIS 29500 (OOXML) proposed standard. The common stance has not been acheived.
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Let’s be clear: The Apache Software Foundation does NOT support OOXML.
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OK, I’ll admit that nobody has claimed otherwise. Yet. But in these days and age you are never too prudent. It wouldn’t surprise me to see this or other similar fancy claim being published eventually.
Read more »The Fog of War and a Ray of Light
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As regular readers will have noticed, I haven't blogged in awhile. This is in part because I'm on the road for most of six weeks, but also because the news about OOXML continues to be both more predictable as well as more intense.
Read more »Subcontractors, Meet Open Source
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Now that the recent lawsuit against Verizon (NYSE: VZ) by a couple of open source developers has been settled, it's become clear -- as some people suspected -- that the real offender here wasn't Verizon per se but a subcontractor, Actiontec.
Read more »Fedora's advice on GPL compliance
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The Fedora Project Board wants our project to remain in
compliance with Free and Open Source Software licenses. We also
want to make sure our Ambassadors are properly following those
licenses when they distribute Fedora. By making sure we are
meeting our obligations under these licenses, we protect Fedora
and all its contributors, including you, our Ambassadors.
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