Re: [libreoffice-marketing] UK Government establishes royalty free open standards

It was a huge effort involving many people and organisations, including
OFE, FSFE, OSC and indeed OSI. The outcome would not have been this good
without all of them. What was encouraging was that a community
spontaneously formed to work on this without the need for an arch-organiser
- or, indeed, a corporate paymaster.

S.



On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Ian Lynch <ianrlynch@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2 November 2012 06:05, Danishka Navin <danishka@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > FYI
> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/UK-Government-establishes-royalty-free-open-standards-1741807.html?from-mobi=1
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>
> Worth mentioning Gerry Gavigan and the Open Source
> Consortium<http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/>of companies who
> provided a lot of input to this.
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