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Free, open standards

Posted Jun 15, 2003 12:40 UTC (Sun) by pointwood (guest, #2814)
Parent article: Opinion on Brazil making Open Source mandatory in government

I personally believe that free, open standards are more important than open source. I would rather have my government to make that a requirement than open source. Bsically what Bruce Perens says with his Sincere Choice initiative: http://www.sincerechoice.org/

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Free, open standards are not enough

Posted Jun 15, 2003 20:33 UTC (Sun) by jneves (guest, #2859) [Link]

No amount of standards will help you in making sure a program does what it is supposed to do.