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Story: Open source awareness growing in Scotland
Posted by: Anonymous (Monday 12 September 2005, 6:01 PM)
Microsoft's announcement of XML support is another manifestation of its oft-seen tactic - embrace a technology and extend it with proprietary and incompatible extensions. For an in-depth discussion of the difference between MS XML and OpenDocument, see http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050130002908154#valoris and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument. Does anyone really think MS will not defend one of its main profit centers by doing everything it can to make it costly and difficult for users and customers to swap out its Office suite?
btw State/Commenwealth of Massachusetts has announced mandatory use of OASIS' OpenDocument starting 2007 see http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/why-opendocument-won.html
As for open standards vs open source, of course they are not the same but they complement each other - the software implements the standard and helps propagate the standard, reinforcing its value. The standard gives a user the assurance that if the software company/OSS project goes under, all the data will not be lost, and thus adds value to the software.
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Story: Open source awareness growing in Scotland
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Further awareness of open formats is needed esp. f... Olav Petri -
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Mr Harvie should be asking his colleagues about th... Anonymous
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Oh dear oh dear! Has no-one learnt any lessons fro... Anonymous
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The decision to use MS in these schools is NO... Anonymous
