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PDF is now an International Standard no. ISO 32000-1
The Portable Document Format (PDF), undeniably one of the most commonly used formats for electronic documents, is now accessible as an ISO International Standard – ISO 32000-1. This move follows a decision by Adobe Systems Incorporated, original developer and copyright owner of the format, to relinquish control to ISO, who is now in charge of [...]
Dual Standards: More Choice, or Less?
Via ODFalliance.org blog
Arguments are often made that having two internationally-approved standards for document formats would encourage choice. After all, isn’t competition good? South Africa’s Minister of Public Service and Administration, Ms. Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi addressed this issue from the perspective of governments in her opening address at the Idlelo 3 Conference currently underway in Dakar, Senegal:
“South [...]
OOXML Implementations: A Community of One?
The ODFalliance.org now has a new OOXML Resource Section. You will find the complete text from “OOXML Implementations: A Community of One” [PDF] below.
If anything, the ODF Alliance analysis is too charitable. OOXML is NOT CLOSE TO a community of one. Documents produced by Microsoft Office 2007 are not OOXML (Ecma 376), DIS 29500, or [...]
OOXML (Office Open XML) not Suitable for GPL – Softwarefreedom.org
There has been much discussion in the free software community and in the press about the inadequacy of Microsoft’s Office Open XML (OOXML) as a standard, including good analysis of some of the shortcomings of Microsoft’s Open Specification Promise (OSP), a promise that is supposed to protect projects from patent risk. Nonetheless, following the close [...]
