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Please don't send me Microsoft Word documents ^pop A discussion of the problems of MSWord as a document exchange format and what alternatives are available. Suitable for a non-technical audience. http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~miller/no-word (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 1 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It Attachments in Proprietary Formats Considered Harmful Explains the risks of exchanging data in non-public format and suggests the main alternatives. http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/email.html (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It Avoid E-Mail Attachments, Especially Microsoft Word Short document with instructions to MS-Word users on alternatives they can use for document exchange. http://bcn.boulder.co.us/~neal/attachments.html (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It Build Systems, Not Companies, on Open Standards Without standards, every job is a one-off, and vendor lock-in is assured after the first project. Open standards are the beating heart of e-Business, without which concepts like intranets and business-to-business commerce would not be practical on a mass scale. http://intranetjournal.com/articles/200202/gb_02_20_02a.html (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It Burn All GIFs Campaign for replacing the patent-encumbered GIF format by open standard graphics. http://burnallgifs.org (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It Business Case for Open Standards Paper investigating economical issues related to the diffusion of public standards. http://www.openstandards.net/viewOSnet1C.jsp?showModuleName=businessCaseForOpenStandards (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It Content Management and Edit Data Exchange Article on formats interoperability in audio and video content. http://www.edlmax.com/CONTENT2.html (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It Cover Pages: Patents and Open Standards Investigates the effects of patent proliferation and criticizes reasonable and non-discriminatory license terms (RAND) for patented technologies. http://xml.coverpages.org/patents.html (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It Death to Proprietary Word Formats Argues in favor of using HTML instead of proprietary word formats. http://homepages.borland.com/ccalvert/Opinion/WordFormats.html (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It LinuxLab - Open Standards Argues in favor of patent-free standards and suggests recommended formats for different kinds of content. http://linuxlab.dk/openstandards/ (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It MS-Word Is Not a Document Exchange Format Explains the appropriate use of document formats and argues against the use of Word attachments. http://www.goldmark.org/netrants/no-word/attach.html (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It No Proprietary Binary Data Formats Why not use proprietary formats and what are the main open alternatives. http://www.podval.org/%7Esds/data.html (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It 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. http://odfi.org/ (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It Open File Format Definition Definition proposed and discussed on the Texas Open Source Initiative Mailing List, as part of an initiative to promote the use of such standards in government projects. http://www.anansispaceworks.com/Documentation/BuildImage/Legal/tosi.openformatdef.2003.03.19.html (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It Open Software and Open Standards in South Africa Document discussing the nature and impact of open source software and public standards and recommendations for South Africa. http://www.naci.org.za/docs/opensource.html (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It Open Source versus Open Standards Draws a distinction between open source advocacies and the promotion of public standards, warning against the confusion of these two initiatives. http://rss.com.com/2010-1071-995823.html (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It Open Standards What is a standard, what is an open standard, and why use open standards on the Internet. http://www.wigglebits.com/standards.html (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It Open Standards Repository Archive of standards relevant to the Open Source community, including licenses, public standards, protocols, RFCs. http://openstandards.org/ (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It Open Standards: Principles and Practice Illustrates the principles behind format standardization and the practice of promoting formats interoperability. http://perens.com/OpenStandards/Definition.html (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It Open StandardsThe Only Option Internet technologies and the economical challenge of open protocols. http://www.sdtimes.com/opinions/guestview_029.htm (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It OpenStandards.net A not-for-profit organization connecting people to open standards and the bodies that build and foster their growth. http://www.openstandards.net/ (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It Plaintext In praise of practical e-mail hygiene and against attachments in proprietary formats. http://www.netby.dk/Oest/Europa-Alle/vermeer/plain.html (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It Sincere Choice Intercommunication and file formats should follow standards that are sincerely open for all to implement, without royalty fees or discrimination. http://sincerechoice.org/ (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It Software Standards versus Protocol Standards How open standards may help mitigate or prevent "customer lock-in" strategies. http://www.clock.org/~fair/opinion/open-standards.html (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It The Free Standards Group A non-profit corporation to increase the use and acceptance of open source technologies through the application, development and promotion of standards. http://www.freestandards.org/ (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It The Principles of Open Standards Ken Krechmer analyzes the distinct issues behind advocacy for non-proprietary formats. http://www.csrstds.com/openstds.html (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It W3C Patent Policy 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. http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It We Can Put an End to Word Attachments Richard Stallman's arguments against the use of proprietary formats in document exchange. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It We Can Put an End to Word Attachments - A Discussion Forum on Richard Stallman's document against file exchange in proprietary format. http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/10/1711238&mode=thread (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It Why Not Word! Why not using Word, Excel or any other proprietary format to communicate. http://www.rfc1149.net/documents/whynotword.html.en (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It Why Open Standards Matter Use of closed standards to prevent competition while protecting revenue is wrong. This practice creates artificial value at the users' expense. http://www.osopinion.com/perl/story/12373.html (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It 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. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html (Added: Thu Jan 01 2004 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It

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