Norwegian Minister: Proprietary Formats No Longer Acceptable (Tatle) [LWN.net]

Norwegian Minister: Proprietary Formats No Longer Acceptable (Tatle)

Posted Jun 28, 2005 4:10 UTC (Tue) by mcatkins (guest, #4270)
Parent article: Norwegian Minister: Proprietary Formats No Longer Acceptable (Tatle)

I think this is a momentous announcement, and exactly the right
thing to do, both for OpenSource, but (more importantly!) also for
society at large.

Attacking closed formats is exactly the right thing to do - arguing
against closed software looks to many people outside the OpenSource
community as another form of narrow-mindedness, but no-one (without
a financial motive) can reasonably argue against open file and
communication standards.

Everything else will follow! (and I hope that includes other countries too)

Martin

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Norwegian Minister: Proprietary Formats No Longer Acceptable (Tatle)

Posted Jun 28, 2005 15:35 UTC (Tue) by emkey (guest, #144) [Link]

I agree. The formats are the key, and Microsoft understands this as well which is why they work so hard to obscure and obfuscate in this area. Any other course of action would mean competing on a far more level playing field and they didn't get where they are today by doing that.