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The public cares about ODF, because it realizes it will impact every one of us directly, and we see the obvious, that OOXML is a spoiler. This has nothing to do with market share. | The public cares about ODF, because it realizes it will impact every one of us directly, and we see the obvious, that OOXML is a spoiler. This has nothing to do with market share. | ||
Courtesy: [http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080414181840439 PJ @ groklaw] | Courtesy: [http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080414181840439 PJ @ groklaw] | ||
'''The role of standards''' | |||
For users, the benefit of a standard is to have compatibility between competing products in the market. As soon as there are two or several standards for the same applications, these are no longer standards, but mere technical specifications. If there had been only one ISO-approved format, it would have been a means to relaunch competition and innovation in the office productivity market. if there are several, the situation remains the same as in the past. The existence of a dual standard doesn't bring anything more than the absence of a standard. - [http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080419005201783 Frédéric Couchet], APRIL, the main French advocacy association devoted to promote and protect Free/Libre Software. | |||
==Events== | ==Events== | ||