Daniel McNamara
I
tried to concentrate on the Office formats since many governments have been
addressing the issue.
Basic Info:
OpenDocument - Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument
Part of some sort of economics class, find "what
is an open standard?"
to get right to the relevant info. Shows an economic
perspective to
demonstrate why closed standards are chosen. http://www.mbs.edu/home/jgans/mecon/value/Segment%205_7.htm
Arguments against the .doc format http://www.zyra.me.uk/dot-doc.htm
Microsoft’s 2007 switch to open xml formats http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa338205.aspx
Richard Stallman argues against Word attachments, and suggests how to
encourage others to change behavior http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html