Ecma International Approves Office Open XML as Worldwide Industry Standard

Posted Dec 9, 2006 13:51 UTC (Sat) by drag (guest, #31333)
In reply to: Ecma International Approves Office Open XML as Worldwide Industry Standard by niner
Parent article: Ecma International Approves Office Open XML as Worldwide Industry Standard

Ya well in my country they are restricted.

Theora and Ogg are not. Free software codecs developed for the specific use of being open and having no royalties or restrictions on their creation or use, but yet I have yet to see anybody use them for video outside of maybe RMS requiring it for records.

So you see exactly why I have no faith that ODF will accomplish much of anything. OpenXML is 'open' also.

Ecma International Approves Office Open XML as Worldwide Industry Standard

Posted Dec 9, 2006 20:33 UTC (Sat) by zotz (guest, #26117) [Link]

"Theora and Ogg are not. Free software codecs developed for the specific use of being open and having no royalties or restrictions on their creation or use, but yet I have yet to see anybody use them for video outside of maybe RMS requiring it for records."

See me here:

http://www.ourmedia.org/user/17145

Theora videos there.

And here:

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=%28creator%3A%22d...

Ogg vorbis audio there.

And I really do agree. It is not a wise more for people who care about Free to not support each other wherever possible.

all the best,

drew