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20 sites in Open Standards |
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Essay by Erik Fair explaining how open standards may help mitigate or prevent "customer lock-in" strategies.
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Benefits of the development of open specifications for audio and video formats. By Rich Mavrogeanes.
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Draws a distinction between open source advocacies and the promotion of public standards, warning against the confusion of these two initiatives.
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A discussion of the problems of MSWord as a document exchange format and what alternatives are available. Suitable for a non-technical audience.
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Internet technologies and the economical challenge of open protocols.
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Article on formats interoperability in audio and video content.
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Campaign for replacing the (formerly) patent-encumbered GIF format by open standard graphics. Since the GIF formats has become patent-free, the site advocates against software patents.
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Initiative aiming to convince software companies to release data format documentation and to pass laws that governments can only store user data in open format. Presents its manifesto, forum, news, links to institutional resolutions.
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Ken Krechmer analyzes the distinct issues behind advocacy for non-proprietary formats.
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What is a standard, what is an open standard, and why use open standards on the Internet.
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Explains the risks of exchanging data in non-public format and suggests the main alternatives.
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Governs the handling of patents in the process of producing Web standards. The goal of this policy is to assure that Recommendations produced under this policy can be implemented on a Royalty-Free (RF) basis.
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Paper investigating economical issues related to the diffusion of public standards.
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Archive of standards relevant to the Open Source community, including licenses, public standards, protocols, RFCs.
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Why not use proprietary formats and what are the main open alternatives.
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Intercommunication and file formats should follow standards that are sincerely open for all to implement, without royalty fees or discrimination.
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Explains the appropriate use of document formats and argues against the use of Word attachments.
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Richard Stallman's arguments against the use of proprietary formats in document exchange.
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A not-for-profit organization connecting people to open standards and the bodies that build and foster their growth.
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An association of CAD customers and vendors committed to promoting Autodesk's AutoCAD DWG drawing file format as an open, industry-standard format for the exchange of CAD drawings.
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