Travel has gotten in the way of my promised blog post on the "ODF, CDF, and Character Assassination," but in the meantime I’ve been having an interesting conversation with reader Yoon Kit on my previous post (referenced here by Peter Galli in ZDNet). Yoon questioned my assertion that, "Any policy [...]
But, we TOLD you so. Ever since the debate over open document format policies began in Massachusetts, ACT has advocated goals-based policies rather than proscriptive policies mandating specific technologies. The best policies for ensuring interoperability, competition, and long-term document access are those that create a flexible framework that allows for [...]
The ODF-only evangelists have had a rough month. First, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts decided that its CIOs should have the ability to choose OoXML, PDF and RTF to best meet the needs of citizens. Now, Apple removes beyond a shadow of a doubt one of the anti-OoXML community’s favorite bits [...]
Yesterday, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts released the final version of its Enterprise Technical Reference Model (ETRM) and it <gasp> included a thumbs up for the Microsoft/Apple/British Library-sponsored Ecma-376 Office Open XML standard. Don't worry PJ, Bob, et al. It's not a sign of the apocalypse, the Rapture, or the Quickening. [...]
Sean Garrett over at the 463 blog has a good summary of the TPS interview of Sun Microsystem's CEO Jonathan Schwartz yesterday. Walt Mossberg proved to be a great interviewer (as you would expect) and the discussion ranged across a lot of issues, including broadband policy and the greening of [...]