What the hell are they complaining about?
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From the ZDNet Article:
Software Choice, (on the other hand), will try to convince legislators that open standards and open source don't necessarily go together. "It is important that government policy recognize that open standards--which are available to any software developers--are not synonymous with, and do not require, open source software either for their adoption or utility," Software Choice stated.
Also, their own policy:
Voluntary, industry-led standard setting is the most effective way to develop platform-neutral and market-based standards. When these standards are open and available to all through reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing they help developers to create products that can interoperate with each other.
Sorry to state the obvious, but they can't possibly seem to have a problem with Open (document) Standards; an yet somehow they do.
God help the "value" economy!
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From the ZDNet Article:
Software Choice, (on the other hand), will try to convince legislators that open standards and open source don't necessarily go together. "It is important that government policy recognize that open standards--which are available to any software developers--are not synonymous with, and do not require, open source software either for their adoption or utility," Software Choice stated.
Also, their own policy:
Voluntary, industry-led standard setting is the most effective way to develop platform-neutral and market-based standards. When these standards are open and available to all through reasonable and non-discriminatory licensing they help developers to create products that can interoperate with each other.
Sorry to state the obvious, but they can't possibly seem to have a problem with Open (document) Standards; an yet somehow they do. God help the "value" economy!