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Up one levelOpenForum Europe is a strong supporter of the only ISO-certificated standard on electronic office documents, the Open Document Format (ODF). ODF provides perpetual access to documents, spreadsheets and presentations independent of the applications that created them. It is open, vendor-neutral and therefore ideal for consumers, companies and governmental agencies,allowing them to build and run all kinds of applications on top of it, which serve their needs best.
We are concerned by various of the Microsoft cooperation, which is trying to establish OOXML as a second and competitive standard in the same area. OOXML does not help consumers, companies and governmental agiences, but only Microsoft's revenue and product strategy and therefore hinders competition and innovation.
We are also concerned on how European Computer Manufacturers Association (ECMA) acts as an International Standards organisation in this context.
OpenForum Europe will provide a number of documents, white papers and links to sources over the next months until the ISO ballot resolution meeting end of February 2008 in Geneva, helping the interested audience to get an overview and deeper understanding of the issues around OOXML and ODF on topics such as technology, patents, e-governements etc.
- The OOXML "library" of resources is now online
- The ODF Alliance has worked on a number of documents, which are dealing with the different aspects of OOXML: Interoperability, Dual standards, a fact sheet on the BRM Meeting of ISO in Geneva, Access to older documents etc.
- What is the status of the NOOOXML campaign
- Technical issues with spreadsheets and OOXML
- Open Forum Europe Positioning on patents & OOXML
- Achieving Openness: a closer look at ODF & OOXML by Sam Hiser of the ODF Alliance
- Achieving Openness: a closer look at ODF & OOXML by Sam Hiser of the ODF Alliance
- FAQ and clarifications re. the Ballot Resolution Meeting in Geneva
- OOXML and ISO: What's At Stake for Governments? An ODF Alliance perspective
- The answer of the ODF Alliance to the Burton Report on ODF and OOXML
- The ODF Alliance on Ecma's Proposed Disposition of Comments on OOXML
- A 10 pager of the ODF Alliance
- MSOOXML Interoperability
- Post BRM Comments
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