Showing posts with label massachusetts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label massachusetts. Show all posts
04 June 2009

Of Open Standards, Interoperability and Open Source

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One of the key moments in the rise of open source was when Massachusetts announced that it was adopting an open standards policy for documen...
22 December 2008

Sun Enables Open Source for Accessibility

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Free software has tended to serve the leading edge of the computing community - hackers, etc. - first. General users have tended to follow l...
20 November 2007

Dealing with Disabilities

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One of the problems raised with the use of ODF in Massachusetts was its lack of support for people with disabilities. That has now been sor...
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14 February 2007

ODF 1.1 : True Accessibility

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News that version 1.1 of the ODF standard has been approved by OASIS is hardly earth-shattering, but I thought this comment in the press rel...
29 November 2006

Microsoft: Do You Have to Be So Blatant?

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Massachusetts, we know, has had a troubled time when it comes to implementing ODF. But here's some fresh blood on the technical advisor...
20 November 2006

MA ODF: Drawing a Balance

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Following his rather downbeat piece about the musical chairs in Massachusetts over bringing in ODF, Andy Updegrove has now complemented this...
14 November 2006

MA Ma-Madness

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Talking of lightning , I can't believe that the curse of Massachusetts has struck twice in the same place, but apparently it has: In (a...
04 October 2006

MA ODF: The Soap Opera

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You couldn't make this stuff up. The man who succeeded Peter Quinn, the main engine behind the adoption of the ODF standard in Massachus...
31 August 2006

ODF Heats Up in Chile

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One of the ironies of the free software world is that it is global - development is carried out around the world, 24 hours a days - and yet ...
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05 July 2006

ODF in MA: Open and Shut?

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The roller-coaster ride of ODF in Massachusetts continues. After the extraordinary blasting the decision had received, which seemed to pla...
10 May 2006

Anti-ODF Stuff Turns Nasty

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With his customary sharpness, Andy Updegrove skewers a particularly nasty piece of lobbyist punditry. The statement in question manages t...
31 January 2006

ODF Gets Interestinger

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Who would have thought file formats could be such fun? The great battle over whether the OpenDocument format should be adopted in Massachus...
29 January 2006

Wikipedia: not Right, but Might

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If you ever wondered why, in the age of the global Internet, local newspapers still existed, read this . It begins as precisely the kind of...
10 January 2006

Open Source's Big Blunder

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It is easy to be fooled by the success of open source software. High-profile applications like Apache and Firefox are routinely cited for t...
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