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What’s in a Label? ODF vs. OOXML and Open Standards

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Michael Tiemann
Mar 4, 2008

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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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