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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
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'
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
>
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
>
> 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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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