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Open Standards Consultation Nearing Close

 

Thoughts on the certification

 

How Microsoft Fought True Open Standards V

 

UK Open Standards consultation - workshop on IPRs

 

Software industry reclaims open standards debate

 

Swedish schools confused about document file formats and applications

 

How Microsoft Fought True Open Standards IV

 

Accommodating Telecoms

 

How Microsoft Fought True Open Standards III

 

Open Standards consultation – important update

 

Cabinet Office Acts On Discovery Of Undisclosed Conflict Of Interest

 

FOI shows bureaucratic bungle behind open standards u-turn

 

Support for ODF from the Hungarian government

 

OSI Supports Open Standards

 

UK Open Standards experts publish joint statement on Government consultation

 

The debate about the UK open standards policy – is it a story like the one of the spider and the bee?

 

Interview with Charles-H. Schulz on Open Standards

 

UK Government Open Standards Consultation closes soon

 

Does Microsoft Office Lock-in Cost the UK Government £500 Million?

 

Microsoft Adds ODF, Short UK, 300MB file Uploads To Skydrive

 

How Microsoft Fought True Open Standards II

 

Dear open standards lobby: SHOUT LOUDER!!

 

How Microsoft Fought True Open Standards I

 

Proprietary lobby triumphs in first open standards showdown

 

Are open standards a closed barrier?

 

Of Microsoft, Netscape, Patents and Open Standards

 

EU Legal Package on Standardisation: legal process taking up speed - some key issues for the ICT part

 

Open Standards Open Opportunities

 

Microsoft redeploys OOXML in open standards battle

 

Document Freedom Day 2012

 

"What's an open standard?" says ISO

 

Microsoft's Open Standards Fairy Tale

 

European countries aligning their interoperability policies

 

Interoperability, Standards and Market Power

 

The bright future of LibreOffice

 

New ISO brochure focuses on force multipliers of ICT standards innovation

 

UK Open Standards Consultation Submission

 

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About FRAND (But didn’t know who to ask)

 

Open Season on Open Standards

 

Questions over open standards lobbyists

 

Paper on Standardisation and Innovation

 

Cabinet Office: no lobby influence on open standards

 

Extended Call for Tender for Improvement of OOXML Support in LibreOffice / OpenOffice

 

ODF Toolkit gets first Apache release

 

Hope shines through crack in lid of open standards coffin

 

UK Government Betrayal of Open Standards Confirmed

 

Microsoft hustled UK retreat on open standards, says leaked report

 

UK Government Open Standards: The Great Betrayal of 2012

 

UK government pulls open standards recommendation

 

Open standards rift tears UK policy to shreds

 

Brazilan State Mandates Preference To ODF

 

'A standard is open when implemented in open source'

 

Government opens consultation on definition of IT open standards

 

Analysis: EU data-sharing projects show early promise

 

7TH ODF PLUGFEST

 

Linus Torvalds: Locked Down Technologies Lose in the End

 

Libraries face a digital future

 

Open standards: UK dithers over royalty question

 

Europe calls for open standards on ebooks

 

HTML5 The proprietary standard

 

Flash's departure clears way for format stand-off

 

Statements on OpenOffice.org Contribution to Apache

 

ODF 1.2: Approved as an OASIS Standard

 

Spreadsheets come to ODF as version 1.2 wins approval

 

The Lurching Landscape of Mobile

 

Standardisation and Innovation - Conference in Berlin

 

Government open source must have an open standards plan

 

UK Government: Open Standards Must be RF, not FRAND

 

You will comply: government to mandate technical standards

 

EU legal package on standardisation: some aspects discussed in depth (I): The global nature of fora/consortia

 

ODF Plugfest: "ODF still needs to establish itself"

 

UK finally moves on Open Standards

 

UK open standards commitment cut back

 

June 2011 - More Standards for Europe and faster

 

OpenForum Europe Response to UK Government Standards Survey

Released 24th May 2011

OpenForum Europe Response to UK Government Standards Survey

 

FTC Seeks Input on Patent Holdup in Standards Development

 

International alarm rings over UK ICT policy

 

Universal phone charger to work with tablets, cameras

 

Google and friends wrap open video codec in patent shield

 

Portugal's New Interoperability Law

 

Open Standards law approved in Portugal

 

BSA Claims Open Standards Will Increase Costs

 

True Open Standards; Open Source Next?

 

Government crowdsources open standards review

 

UK Gov supports EIF1 in guidance for use of Open Standards

 

Why India’s open standards policy is a historic development

 

Adoption of Open Standards in Portugal

 

Position paper from German organisations on ICT standardisation reform