2007-06-29

Six questions to national standardisation bodies

The Free Software Foundation Europe asks 6 very to-the-point questions related to the OOXML / ODF debate:
  • Application independence?
  • Supporting pre-existing Open Standards?
  • Backward compatibility for all vendors?
  • Proprietary extensions?
  • Dual standards?
  • Legally safe?
Read more at http://fsfeurope.org/documents/msooxml-questions


2007-06-18

Lifehack.org: Open Source Life - How the open movement will change everything

Consider this: in just a few short years, the open-source encyclopedia Wikipedia has made closed-source encyclopedias obsolete — both the hard-bound kind and the CD-ROM or commercial online kind. Goodbye World Book and Brittanica.

This is but one example of how the concept of open source has changed our lives already. Over the next 10 years or so, we’ll be seeing many more examples, and the effects could change just about every aspect of our lives.

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