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Open Document Format Now ISO Certified

By JCausey, Section General Articles
Posted on Wed May 3rd, 2006 at 10:45:45 EST

I would have preferred to have been able to reproduce The ConsortiumInfo's article here to help spread the word. However, a link will do I suppose. I had an e-mail come across one of the OOo mailing lists this morning to announce that the Open Document Format is now an international standard. As the e-mail indicated,

the OASIS Open Document Format spec is now an international standard. Its designation is ISO/IEC 26300. It passed without oppostion[sic]. (There were a few abstentions.) There was very broad support worldwide.

There is more information at TheConsortiumInfo.org web site and a press release(pdf) issued by the ODF Alliance.

As Simon Phipps indicates on his weblog,

we can now draw a base-line across the productivity tools market and tell our suppliers we will not tolerate further competition and lock-in below that line. Innovation above that line is desirable - expected, even - but attempts to force upgrade, lock out competition, control my own use of my own data, are all now unacceptable. We have the tools of freedom in our hands. Time to use them.

Obviously I think this is great news at it will now introduce a new "pressure point" to encourage adoption of software tools that comply with an ISO standard. At the present time, that would not include Microsoft, so a definite opportunity exists.

Thanks for reading,
Jeff Causey

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Re: Open Document Format Now ISO Certified (none / 1) (#1)
by JCausey (jcausey@ip-wars.net) on Wed May 3rd, 2006 at 11:39:22 EST
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On a related follow-up (kind of sweet both of these came out the same day, though it was not planned), OOo today has launched a new marketing campaign. It will actually be part of a larger marketing push Why OpenOffice.org?. However, to start with OOo is specifically promoting a new campaign for folks to Get legal!.

Jeff

OOo Get Legal Campaign by JCausey, 05/04/2006 08:16:24 EST (none / 1)

Bye bye spambot (none / 0) (#7)
by Potential Recruit on Tue Nov 28th, 2006 at 13:02:25 EST

This used to be a spambot post that is flooding the site. Due to volume, I had to resort to this while I work to block access by these bots. My apologies - thanks for your patience.

Jeff

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