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<h1>Document Freedom Day</h1> | |
<p>February 27th is Document Freedom Day, a celebration of Open Standards, especially those related to your electronic documents. The Apache OpenOffice project | |
enthusiastically supports Document Freedom Day and offers the folowing thoughts for you to read and share with your friends</p> | |
<h2>What are Open Standards?</h2> | |
<p>There are many different nuanced definitions promoted by various authories, but in general Open Standards are standards that are developed in an open, consensus-based process, | |
are freely available for anyone to use, and do not require royalty payments to implement.</p> | |
<h2>Why are Open Standards important?</h2> | |
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<li>Use of open standards makes your software less expensive, since the authors of the code did not need to pay royalties. Free software, including open source | |
software, would be nearly impossible to create without open standards.</li> | |
<li>Open standards promote widespread adoption and interoperability.</li> | |
<li>Open standards encourage a market where vendors compete based on features and quality, rather than rely on vendor lock-in.</li> | |
<li>Open standards put <b>you</b> in control of your documents and your data.</li> | |
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<h2>What are some important Open Standards?</h2> | |
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<li>Open Document Format (ODF) is the ISO-approved standard for office documents, the default format for Apache OpenOffice.</li> | |
<li>Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is the W3C standard for vector graphics, suported on the web and in Apache OpenOffice.</li> | |
<li>Portable Document Format (PDF) is the ISO-approved standard for fixed-layout document representations, supported in many applications including Apache OpenOffice.</li> | |
<li>Mathematical Markup Language (MathML) is the W3C standard for representing mathematical equations, supported on the web and in Apache OpenOffice.</li> | |
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<h2>What can I do to help promote open standards</h2> | |
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<li>Use open standards wherever your application supports them.</li> | |
<li>If your favorite applications don't support open standards like ODF, write to your vendor and request that.</li> | |
<li>When you publish documents on the web, do so in open formats.</li> | |
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<h2>Please tell your friends about Document Freedom Day</h2> | |
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