Peter Quinn To Keynote ODF Workshop at SCALE 4x 6

Posted by Hemos on Monday January 23, 2006 @09:32AM from the hear-all-about-it dept.

irabinovitch writes "The Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE) has announced that Peter Quinn, former CIO of Massachusetts, will keynote at the 2006 Southern California Linux Expo. Quinn's keynote will be the opening presentation at SCALE's Workshop on the OpenDocument Format in Government Organizations. There will be over 30 presentations at SCALE 4x including Chris Dibona (Google), Aaron Seigo (KDE) and Matt Asay (Alfresco)"

Peter Quinn To Keynote ODF Workshop at SCALE 4x

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- Re:Excuse me (Score:5, Insightful)
  
  by Bert64 ( 520050 ) writes: <.moc.eeznerif.todhsals. .ta. .treb.> on Monday January 23, 2006 @09:38AM (#14538935) Homepage
  
  OpenDocument isn't intended to weaken commercial software, it's intended to improve the position of consumers.
  
  The availability of standard image formats hasn't stopped Adobe from selling photoshop.
  
  - Re:Excuse me (Score:1)
    
    by DigDuality ( 918867 ) writes:
    
    Whether that's the intention or not, that's what a good portion of ODF's consumer base is hoping for. By weakening commerical software's grasp on the market, the more we aren't forced into complying with propreitary standards. Frankly, i think government itself should not be allowed to touch proprietary software as much as possible if a publicly open standard is available. It reeks of corporate special interest and using government institutions that we all pay for, to push a particular company's agenda.
- ODF != open source advocacy (Score:5, Informative)
  
  by oldosadmin ( 759103 ) writes: on Monday January 23, 2006 @12:00PM (#14540205) Homepage
  
  What exactly will a bunch of Linux hippies convening at a "workshop" accomplish? What, will they go over new ways to copy Microsoft? Or will they share new ideas to furter weaken the commercial software industry? Bunch of commies if you ask me.
  
  I hate to feed the troll, but I'm sure the base concern is shared by more than a few people around here share.
  
  The OpenDocument Fellowship *is not* an open source advocacy group. We're happy to hear of ANYONE using open formats, expecially in the realm of office software.
  
  The sibling post comparing open formats in commercial office software to photoshop and open image formats has the right idea. Open standards stimulate competition -- both commercially and in the open community.
  
  Jason Faulkner
  OpenDocment Fellowship Eastern US Press Contact

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