Open Standards
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- Avoid E-Mail Attachments, Especially Microsoft Word
- Short document with instructions to MS-Word users on alternatives they can use for document exchange.
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- Content Management and Edit Data Exchange
- Article on formats interoperability in audio and video content.
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- Cover Pages: Patents and Open Standards
- Investigates the effects of patent proliferation and criticizes reasonable and non-discriminatory license terms (RAND) for patented technologies.
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- Open Data Format Initiative
- 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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- Open Design Alliance
- An association of CAD customers and vendors committed to promoting open, industry-standard formats for the exchange of CAD data. History, members, FAQs, and published papers.
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- Open Standards
- What is a standard, what is an open standard, and why use open standards on the Internet.
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- Software versus Protocol (or file format) Standards
- Essay by Erik Fair explaining how open standards may help mitigate or prevent "customer lock-in" strategies.
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- The Principles of Open Standards
- Ken Krechmer analyzes the distinct issues behind advocacy for non-proprietary formats.
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- We Can Put an End to Word Attachments
- Richard Stallman's arguments against the use of proprietary formats in document exchange.
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- Why There Are Not GIF Files on GNU Pages
- Advocates against the use of image formats that are protected by patents. Presents a brief history of the GIF format as well as its open alternatives.
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