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I've noted before that there's something rotten at the heart of the British Library, which insists on locking down knowledge in Mic...

Here's a rather wonderful document by Tim Bray, one of the key people in the XML world, and someone who evidently knows everyone else t...

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One of the key issues in the battle between ODF and OOXML is access to documents over long timeframes. It's not just a matter of which ...

In the red corner : So what about the OpenDocument Foundation? We fall into the middle area of trying to perfect the conversion to XML regar...

Younger readers of this blog probably don't remember the golden cyber-age known as Dotcom 1.0, but one of its characteristics was the co...

A nice summary by Rob Weir of Microsoft's increasingly desperate campaign to undermine ODF in every way possible through artful and per...

This raises some interesting issues about what exactly copyright covers : A cricketing website has found what it hopes is an inventive way t...

The online world is awash with XML feeds. The great thing about XML is that you can grab it and do stuff with it very easily, because it...

The publication of the first Halloween memo in 1998 was a pivotal moment in the history of free software. For the first time, it was clea...

Since both of the ODF and UOF office formats are based on XML, it isn't (theoretically) hard to move between them. Nonetheless, it'...

Back in the good old Web 1.0 days, XML was really hot. Here's a useful reminder that (a) XML is 10 years old (gosh, doesn't time f...

OASIS may not be the grooviest organisation, but it's certainly helped ODF achieve respectability remarkably quickly. Now it's set...

I don't know whether this is big enough to call a trend yet, but it's striking that several ex-Microsofties are setting up new compa...

Hm, what's this: an analyst starting to say downright nice things about ODF? From the article by Ingrid Marson: There is a 70 percent ...

Many people were amazed back in 2004 when Microsoft released its first open source software, Windows Installer XML (WiX). But this was onl...

I suppose it was inevitable that Google would go from being regarded as quite the dog's danglies to being written off as a real dog'...

One of the most interesting areas in the world of open standards is the OpenDocument format, which promises to do to Microsoft Office what ...

Ajax is short for Asynchronous Javascript + XML; it enables a Web page to be changed in the browser on the fly, without needing to refer bac...