Re: Open standards

2007-10-08 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: linux-il Subject: Re: Open standards Follow up - the OpenU recently published a pre-proposal for the project: See http://telem.openu.ac.il/resources/files/proposal.pdf Sagi On 8/29/07, Kfir Lavi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, The Open University decided to open

Re: Open standards

2007-10-03 Thread Dan Armak
On Wednesday 03 October 2007, you wrote: > Follow up - the OpenU recently published a pre-proposal for the project: > > See http://telem.openu.ac.il/resources/files/proposal.pdf > Item 4.2(2) says, very emphatically, that the books must be published in an "open and free" (no definition of 'free'

Re: Open standards

2007-10-03 Thread Sagi Bashari
want to give some arguments why they should publish the books in > open standards. > Please post some arguments that can persuade the head of this project to > go Open. > > Thanks, > Kfir >

Re: Open standards

2007-08-30 Thread Kfir Lavi
Nope, Its free to the public. No DRM is needed. On 8/30/07, Dan Armak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 30 August 2007, Kfir Lavi wrote: > > > By opening do you mean publishing the books online? Free of charge? > > > Allowing > > > copying? Allowing modifications? > > > > Duno about modif

Re: Open standards

2007-08-30 Thread Lior Kaplan
Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 08:29:13AM +0300, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: > >> To expand on it a bit, ODT or ISO/IEC 26300:2006, "OASIS Open Document >> Format for Office Applications" is the only international standard for >> office documents. It is unlikely that docu

Re: Open standards

2007-08-30 Thread Meir Kriheli
Kfir Lavi wrote: > as long as just one crazy guy continues to maintain the groff program. > > > Well, groff is a very good example. 30 years, wow. The thing is that > groff is a small program, that can be maintained by one person. Word or > openoffice in the other hand need a lot of people, b

Re: Open standards

2007-08-30 Thread Dan Armak
On Thursday 30 August 2007, Kfir Lavi wrote: > > By opening do you mean publishing the books online? Free of charge? > > Allowing > > copying? Allowing modifications? > > Duno about modifications or free, but the books will be online for > everyone to read. If it's not free of charge, in what se

Re: Open standards

2007-08-30 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 01:22:31PM +0300, Nadav Har'El wrote: > Ok, then, forget Israeli products. What about Lotus Word Pro, then? This > used to be a popular format, and where I work (IBM) used to be *the most* > popular format, more than Microsoft Word, as recently as 10 years ago. Then, > over

Re: Open standards

2007-08-30 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote about "Re: Open standards": > However, you are looking it it through Israeli eyes. Microsoft Word is > a worldwide product and there are millions of users. When Qtext or > Einstein where at their peak, computers where so heav

Re: Open standards

2007-08-30 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
es, both gone, and most people have never even heard of DELAG. Or AT&T? The brand remains the same, but the AT&T of 2007 is nothing like the AT&T that was expected in 2001 as portrayed by a movie of that title made in 1968. As for open standards, how many of them that existed in

Re: Open standards

2007-08-30 Thread Kfir Lavi
> > as long as just one crazy guy continues to maintain the groff program. Well, groff is a very good example. 30 years, wow. The thing is that groff is a small program, that can be maintained by one person. Word or openoffice in the other hand need a lot of people, but a lot of industries counti

Re: Open standards

2007-08-30 Thread Kfir Lavi
Hi Dan, On 8/29/07, Dan Armak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 29 August 2007, Kfir Lavi wrote: > > Hi, > > The Open University decided to open some of her books to the public. > > My friend want to give some arguments why they should publish the

Re: Open standards

2007-08-30 Thread Nadav Har'El
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote about "Re: Open standards": > > The chances of Microsoft Word2003 documents being readable five years from > > now is not good. > > I disagree. I think MS Word documents will be readable for a long time > because p

Re: Open standards

2007-08-29 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 08:29:13AM +0300, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: > To expand on it a bit, ODT or ISO/IEC 26300:2006, "OASIS Open Document > Format for Office Applications" is the only international standard for > office documents. It is unlikely that documents not complying with this > sta

Re: Open standards

2007-08-29 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
linux-il Subject: Re: Open standards Kfir Lavi wrote: Hi, The Open University decided to open some of her books to the public. My friend want to give some arguments why they should publish the books in open standards. Please post some arguments that can persuade the head of this project to

Re: Open standards

2007-08-29 Thread Lior Kaplan
Kfir Lavi wrote: > Hi, > The Open University decided to open some of her books to the public. > My friend want to give some arguments why they should publish the books > in open standards. > Please post some arguments that can persuade the head of this project to > go Open.

Re: Open standards

2007-08-29 Thread Dan Armak
On Wednesday 29 August 2007, Kfir Lavi wrote: > Hi, > The Open University decided to open some of her books to the public. > My friend want to give some arguments why they should publish the books in > open standards. > Please post some arguments that can persuade the head of thi

Open standards

2007-08-29 Thread Kfir Lavi
Hi, The Open University decided to open some of her books to the public. My friend want to give some arguments why they should publish the books in open standards. Please post some arguments that can persuade the head of this project to go Open. Thanks, Kfir