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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: Mon Apr 04 2011 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: Mon Apr 04 2011 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://www.intranetjournal.com/articles/200202/gb_02_20_02a.html (Added: Mon Apr 04 2011 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It Burn All GIFs 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. http://burnallgifs.org/archives/ (Added: Mon Apr 04 2011 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: Mon Apr 04 2011 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/ContentManagement.htm (Added: Mon Apr 04 2011 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: Mon Apr 04 2011 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It Document Freedom Day Aims to educate the public about the importance of Free Document Formats and Open Standards in general. Coordinates activities that happen on last Wednesday of March, celebrated as the Document Freedom Day. http://www.documentfreedom.org/ (Added: Mon Apr 04 2011 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It Linux Standard Base The goal of the Linux Standard Base (LSB) is to develop and promote a set of standards that will increase compatibility among Linux distributions and enable software applications to run on any compliant Linux system. http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/lsb (Added: Mon Apr 04 2011 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://goldmark.org/netrants/no-word/attach.html (Added: Mon Apr 04 2011 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/~sds/data.html (Added: Mon Apr 04 2011 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: Mon Apr 04 2011 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It 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. http://www.opendesign.com/ (Added: Mon Apr 04 2011 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It Open Media Now! Foundation Supports free ways to create, to distribute and display digital content by actively developing cross-platform solutions, such as Gnash. http://www.openmedianow.org/ (Added: Mon Apr 04 2011 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://news.cnet.com/2010-1071-995823.html (Added: Mon Apr 04 2011 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: Mon Apr 04 2011 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It Open Standards - The Only Option Internet technologies and the economical challenge of open protocols. http://www.sdtimes.com/content/article.aspx?ArticleID=25695 (Added: Mon Apr 04 2011 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: Mon Apr 04 2011 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It Openformats.org Collaborative documentation projects on why use public standards and open formats and why avoid proprietary formats in data exchange. http://www.openformats.org/ (Added: Mon Apr 04 2011 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: Mon Apr 04 2011 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It Please don't send me Microsoft Word documents A discussion of the problems of MSWord as a document exchange format and what alternatives are available. Suitable for a non-technical audience. http://en.nothingisreal.com/wiki/Please_don%27t_send_me_Microsoft_Word_documents (Added: Mon Apr 04 2011 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: Mon Apr 04 2011 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It Software versus Protocol (or file format) Standards Essay by Erik Fair explaining how open standards may help mitigate or prevent "customer lock-in" strategies. http://www.clock.org/~fair/opinion/open-standards.html (Added: Mon Apr 04 2011 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It Streaming media: A case for open standards Benefits of the development of open specifications for audio and video formats. By Rich Mavrogeanes. http://news.cnet.com/2010-1025_3-5099118.html (Added: Mon Apr 04 2011 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: Mon Apr 04 2011 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: Mon Apr 04 2011 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: Mon Apr 04 2011 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: Mon Apr 04 2011 Hits: 0 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It Review It

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