On Friday 29 April 2005 02:20, Gary Edwards wrote: > Lars D. wrote: > > That is really great news. Gary, can you post a URL for a > > press release after the voting is complete on Saturday or > > Sunday? > > Hi Lars, > > Yes, we will all be celebrating on Saturday. We are now at 20% > (68 out of 341 delegates in favor of the OpenDocument). From > here we can pretty much coast into Saturday's close of the > ballot. There are no negative votes yet. Not even from > Microsoft.
Hi Gary, Thanks for keeping us informed of this very nitty gritty geeky but apparently crucial piece of news. There are many of us in the community, including myself foremost of all, who will probably not appreciate the significance of this news for quite some time. I do get the sense, though, that a good comparison for this news would be akin to Munich's announcement of its decision to go open source, even though this decision will probably not hit the world press as that decision did. > > OASIS has planned a press release, which i'll forward to the > community. > > One of the things i need to discuss with the community though are > the various issues i have with OASIS. Well, these are actually > issues that the community has with OASIS. > > Basically i think they (OASIS) have recently undergone some > significant changes, and might now be considered hostile to Open > Source Communities. The new OASIS IPR policy is but one of the > issues that troubles me. But let's save the garbage till after > Saturday. Today we are heading for a major triumph. A hard won > victory for the future of Internet based collaborative computing. > An Open Source success with Open Standards that will reverberate > for years to come. > > And we are on the cusp of a major change in how the volumes of > mankind's knowledge can be created, stored, worked, and re > purposed for centuries to come. The age of a structured, > portable, universal file format that is cross platform, inter > application, and collaborative Internet ready is at hand. > > Ready the champagne my friends. I think we've crossed that > first, most difficult, hurdle. > ~ge~ > > > -Lars > > Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > Software patents harm all Net-based business, write your > > MEP: > > http://wwwdb.europarl.eu.int/ep6/owa/p_meps2.repartition?ilg=EN > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- >---- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
