Re: [Fsfe-uk] Gnu/Linux and freedom (was Linux in Thailand.)

[Ramanan Selvaratnam]

On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 08:37, Tom Yates wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Chris Croughton wrote:
> 
> > I can't take an OO.o .sxw (or whatever it is) file and expect anything
> > else to understand it, even though it's "free software", because it
> > doesn't conform to any published open standard (sure, I have or can get
> > the source, but I don't have time to wade through it to find the code
> > which implements the format).
> 
> they have contributed the file formats to a new technical 
> committee (TC) of the Organization for the Advancement of Structured 
> Information Standards (OASIS)."

FYI: This was discussed on this list in quite some detail not too long
ago with a lot of relevance to freedoms in software and how best to
promote the format in the UK

Ramanan

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