Comments on: “UK Government Will Impose Compulsory Open Standards” http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/uk-government-will-impose-compulsory-open-standards/ Reflections on the Web and Web 2.0 Sun, 26 May 2013 00:07:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Preparing a Response to the UK Government’s Open Standards: Open Opportunities Document « UK Web Focus http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/uk-government-will-impose-compulsory-open-standards/#comment-115707 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:28:05 +0000 http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/?p=7111#comment-115707 [...] entitled  UK Government Survey on Open Standards: But What is an ‘Open Standard’? and  “UK Government Will Impose Compulsory Open Standards” published a year ago I responded to the initial survey and gave my thoughts on the definitions of [...]

]]> By: Openness in One Country « UK Web Focus http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/uk-government-will-impose-compulsory-open-standards/#comment-114208 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:46:50 +0000 http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/?p=7111#comment-114208 [...] commented on the Government’s informal consultation in a post entitled “UK Government Will Impose Compulsory Open Standards”. In that post I described how fundamentally flawed the survey was: for example as can be seen in [...]

]]> By: Gerry Gavigan http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/uk-government-will-impose-compulsory-open-standards/#comment-91467 Sun, 24 Apr 2011 14:15:50 +0000 http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/?p=7111#comment-91467 with apologies for my typos, s/availble/available/, s/belive/believe

]]> By: Gerry Gavigan http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/uk-government-will-impose-compulsory-open-standards/#comment-91466 Sun, 24 Apr 2011 14:13:15 +0000 http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/?p=7111#comment-91466 Thank you for writing about the OGC survey. We’ve gone about it a bit here: http://www.opensourceconsortium.org/content/view/141/89/

I’d like to highlight it’s a survey and not a consultation, with a corresponding lack of governance and transparency. There are several further nuances/mistakes that have been propagated across several pronouncements.

I thought it unfortunate that there was so much support for the government statements, such support appearing to have been given prior to any considered analysis and now availbe for re-use by those that would have us belive that things are changing

]]> By: Brian Kelly (UK Web Focus) http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/uk-government-will-impose-compulsory-open-standards/#comment-91422 Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:57:17 +0000 http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/?p=7111#comment-91422 Oops! My typo this time – now corrected. Thanks for pointing this out.

]]> By: Christopher Gutteridge http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/uk-government-will-impose-compulsory-open-standards/#comment-91421 Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:52:14 +0000 http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/?p=7111#comment-91421 “RDF is listed as a standard – although this is a proprietary format which is owned by Microsoft.”

I really hope you meant RTF?

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