[Ubuntu-be] [OT] (NL): EC wil af van open standaarden

[Mattias Campe]

Jan Bongaerts schreef:
> The way I interpret this, it doesn't seem they want to force anything 
> either way. It would appear that they also want the people to be able 
> to exercise their right to be a real dumb-ass and stick to Microsoft 
> and their cronies. Forcing Open Source and/or Linux down everyone's 
> throat wouldn't be fair neither.
If it would be about open source software, you would be right. But it's 
not!!! It's about open standards, which doesn't have very much to do 
with Linux. See 
http://nl.wikibooks.org/wiki/Open_standaarden#Vaak_voorkomende_misverstanden 
(but it's in Dutch).

So it's eg. not about OpenOffice.org, but about OpenDocumentFormat 
(which you can open with OpenOffice, KOffice, AbiWord,...).
So it's eg. not about Windows Media Player, but about Ogg Vorbis or Ogg 
Theora (eg.).

These misunderstandings between Open Source Software and Open Standards 
happen a lot, it's very important to understand the differences, 
although they seem alike!

Greetings
Mattias
>
> Just like one should still be free to choose to become a bum in 
> Brussels. It does have it advantages too, you know. Especially when 
> you throw all your papers away, you get all sorts of perks from our 
> government!
>
> Or have I missed the plot here?
>
> Jan.
>
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Jan Claeys <ubuntu at janc.be 
> <mailto:ubuntu at janc.be>> wrote:
>
>     Op dinsdag 03-11-2009 om 09:42 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Jan
>     Bongaerts:
>     > Even if it is important, if this is implemented this way,
>     ignoring Mr.
>     > Novaretti's statement, I don't think it would *ban* open standards,
>     > but it just would not *demand* them. That would only seem fair,
>     > wouldn't it?
>
>     This is about how information is communicated to us, citizens, and how
>     we can communicate with the government.
>
>     I don't want the EU or national or local government to be able to
>     force
>     me and tell me which operating system, office software, browser,
>     etc. I
>     have to use (if I don't want to become a homeless person living in the
>     Brussels metro).
>
>
>     --
>     Jan Claeys
>
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