Microsoft just won’t quit. Now they’re trying to make OOXML an ISO standard. Please help stop this.
Here’s how I explained it in Open Source Software for Libraries:
The state of Massachusetts in 2005 announced new IT standards that required its 80,000 employees and 173 agencies to adopt open file formats. The decision didn’t specify the applications [...]
Posted September 18, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: document formats, free software, iso, microsoft, monopoly, ooxml, open formats, standards, tyranny. 2 Comments.
OpenSearch is a common way of querying a database for content and returning the results. The idea is that it brings sanity to the proliferation of search APIs, but a realistic view would have to admit that we’ve been trying to do that since before the development of z39.50 in libraries decades ago, and the [...]
Posted May 3, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: DeWitt Clinton, interview, open formats, opensearch, protocols, rss, search, search syndication. Be the first one.
