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:What's in a Label? ODF vs. OOXML and Open Standards
What's in a Label? ODF vs. OOXML and Open Standards
Mar 3, 2008, 22 :00 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (6133 reads)

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: if the standard could not be implemented fully and faithfully in Open Source, the standard should never be declared nor considered open.

"The OSI's Open Standards Requirements seem like such a simple and obvious rule, not unlike the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution, a rule that was simplicity itself..."

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