{"id":1034,"date":"2010-06-12T20:37:03","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T00:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2d823b65bb.nxcli.io\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2010-06-13T12:50:55","modified_gmt":"2010-06-13T16:50:55","slug":"weekly-links-weekly-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/weekly-links-weekly-11.html","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Links #11"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"diigo-linkroll\">\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/jeff-duntemann.livejournal.com\/245082.html\">Jeff Duntemann&#8217;s ContraPositive Diary &#8211; EPub and Word Processors<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a style=\"color: #000 !important; text-decoration: none !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/rcweir\">tags<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/rcweir\/EPub\">EPub<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/eugenesopinions.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/odf-templates-for-openofficeorg-lulucom.html\">Eugene&#8217;s Opinions: ODF Templates For OpenOffice.org [Lulu.com, Turabian, misc]<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a style=\"color: #000 !important; text-decoration: none !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/rcweir\">tags<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/rcweir\/ODF\">ODF<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"diigo-link\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/businesscenter\/article\/198608\/eu_commissioner_warns_it_buyers_against_vendor_lockin.html\">EU Commissioner Warns IT Buyers Against Vendor Lock-in<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-description\">I think Sayer hints at the significance of the speech here.  It is not merely a reiteration of the importance of open standards against vendor lock-in.  We all understand that now.  What is new here is the suggestion that European procurement should explicitly recognize consortia standards.<\/p>\n<p>This is an interesting idea.  We try to avoid monopolies in other areas of economic life.  Why should we then be satisfied with ISO having a monopoly on International Standards? Competition in this area could be a healthy thing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"diigo-tags\"><a style=\"color: #000 !important; text-decoration: none !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/cloud\/rcweir\">tags<\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/rcweir\/standards\">standards<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Posted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\">Diigo<\/a>. The rest of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diigo.com\/user\/rcweir\">favorite links<\/a> are here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Duntemann&#8217;s ContraPositive Diary &#8211; EPub and Word Processors tags: EPub Eugene&#8217;s Opinions: ODF Templates For OpenOffice.org [Lulu.com, Turabian, misc] tags: ODF EU Commissioner Warns IT Buyers Against Vendor Lock-in I think Sayer hints at the significance of the speech here. It is not merely a reiteration of the importance of open standards against vendor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1034","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-weekly-links","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034\/revisions\/1035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}