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Otvoreni standardi

Otvoreni standardi omogućuju slobodno dijeljenje raznih podataka s visokim stupnjem vjernosti standarda. Onemogućuju stvaranje zavisnosti i drugih umjetnih granica prema interoperabilnosti te promiču izbor između proizvođača i tehnoloških rješenja. FSFE-ov rad na otvorenim standardima ima za cilj pobrinuti se da prelazak na slobodan softver ili između rješenja u slobodnom softveru bude jednostavan.

Uvod

Važnost otvorenih standarda usko je vezana za efekt umrežavanja i zbog toga drastično raste. Nagrada za vlasničke proizvođače za izigravanje sustava raste kao i trošak za korisnike softvera.

Vlade i nevladine organizacije od javnog interesa uključujući grupe koje se brinu o slobodi natjecanja ili prava potrošača općenito su glasni zagovornici otvorenih standarda. Uobičajeni kritičari su proizvođači vlasničkog softvera i zastupnici njihovih interesa. Jedna od stvari koju kritičari često žele istaći je inherentan sukob između inovacije i standardizacije.

Standardizacija namjerno ograničava promjene u tehnološkoj osnovi uključujući i inovacije. Ova su ograničenja uvedena kako bi omogućila naknadne inovacije od bilo koje strane koja ima pristup standardu, a ne samo strani koja kontrolira tehnološku osnovu. Stoga standardi ograničavaju mogućnost inovacije jedne strane kako bi na osnovi standarda omogućili inovacije više različitih strana.

Otvoreni standardi svima omogućuju takve inovacije u kojima inicijalni razvijatelj platforme ne može ograničiti druge u inovaciji ili natjecanju.

FSFE-ovi ciljevi uključuju slobodu od nastajanja zavisnosti kao i mogućnost inoviranja i natjecanja svih zainteresiranih. Zbog toga je FSFE glasan zagovornik otvorenih standarda.

Publikacija

Publikacija na IGF-u

"Sovereign Software: Open Standards, Free Software, and the Internet"
FSFE-ov doprinos prvom IGF-u, Georg Greve

Publikacija o MS-OOXML-u

Six questions to national standardisation bodies
FSFE-ove dopunske kratke upute: "Interoperability woes with MS-OOXML"
FSFE-ove dopunske kratke upute: "DIS-29500: Deprecated before use?"
Članak na BBC-u: "Questions for Microsoft on open formats"
Članak na Heise.de: "The converter hoax"

Povezane vijesti

Executive summary of the EURA case

09 May:

Slovak textile importer EURA Slovakia, s.r.o. is facing EUR 5600 in fines because it did not buy and use the Microsoft Windows operating system for submitting electronic tax reports. Slovak tax administration gave EURA only two options: either to buy and use Microsoft Windows or face the fines. This is also how we could briefly summarize the decision of Slovak tax administration from a few weeks ago. The administration imposed several fines on a company, EURA Slovakia, which submitted its tax reports on paper, because the use of electronic form was impossible as the state's web application worked only on the Microsoft Windows operating system. The company now plans to appeal to the court and to demand that the state stops forcing businesses to use a certain product, instead of requiring that the public administration uses a multi-platform technical solution based on Open Standards that is available for everybody.

State neglected web standards, company now faces EUR 5600 in fines

09 May:

In Slovakia, a law introduced to reduce red tape has led to injustice. The state has mandated electronic means as a only way of fulfilling certain statutory obligations. However the dedicated web solution excludes some citizens from use as it is not interoperable and runs only on the software from one vendor. In absence of any non-electronic option, this means that state, in fact, prescribed the use of a certain product from a certain vendor. Who did not own the copy, had to buy one. Slovak textile importer deemed that state should not force him to use a certain software for his business and fulfilled its legal obligation by paper. Now the company faces EUR 5600 in fines.

"FRAND is a FRAUD"

26 April:

The UK government is holding a consultation about what sort of patent licenses an "open" standard should require. Anyone that develops Free Software (as in freedom, not price) and would like it to be used in the UK has reason to be concerned with this, along with anyone that uses or distributes Free Software in the UK.

UK Open Standards experts publish joint statement on Government consultation

25 April:

At a meeting yesterday, hosted by the British Computer Society's Open Source Specialists Group, We the Undersigned called upon the Government to do the following:

Summit Meeting of experts calls upon UK Government to deliver on Open Standards