{"id":757,"date":"2008-03-26T06:05:35","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T11:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/26\/an-important-week-for-document-freedom"},"modified":"2008-03-26T06:05:39","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T11:05:39","slug":"an-important-week-for-document-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/26\/an-important-week-for-document-freedom","title":{"rendered":"An important week for document freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend <a href=\"http:\/\/ditesh.gathani.org\/blog\/\">Ditesh<\/a>, is performing the tireless task, of following and updating the list of countries voting on Microsoft OOXML, at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openmalaysiablog.com\/2008\/03\/the-last-lap.html\">The Last Lap<\/a>. If you&#8217;re interested in the freedom of document formats, this is a list you should keep a close look on this week. The comments feed is also particularly interesting.<\/p>\n<p>In other news, today is <a href=\"http:\/\/documentfreedom.org\/\">Document Freedom Day<\/a>. Have you freed your documents yet?<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/ooxml\" rel=\"tag\">ooxml<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/odf\" rel=\"tag\">odf<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/document%20freedom%20day\" rel=\"tag\">document freedom day<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/microsoft\" rel=\"tag\">microsoft<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/ditesh%20kumar\" rel=\"tag\">ditesh kumar<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20An%20important%20week%20for%20document%20freedom&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2008%2F03%2F26%2Fan-important-week-for-document-freedom&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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Look at HTTP as a \"standard\" - pre-dating HTTP we had Gopher (and WAIS was our Google), but quite clearly, HTTP won the day. TCP is another good standard. These all have one thing in common: they're open,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":753,"url":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/21\/when-adults-act-like-kids-or-how-microsoft-sullys-the-standards-process","url_meta":{"origin":757,"position":1},"title":"When adults act like kids or how Microsoft sullys the standards process","date":"21\/3\/2008","format":false,"excerpt":"In a mere eight days (March 29, 2008), the vote for the fast-track of ECMA-376 will have to be concluded. In the APAC region, the Participating (\"P\" member countries) countries are Australia, New Zealand, China, India, Korea, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore. 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