recently parliament passed into law some changes to the copyright act to account for the modern technological environment. some of those changes were good some bad and ive blogged about them many times before. but the most controversial change to the copyright act made was the insertion of section 92a which says in effect that isps have to have a policy to implement cutting off peoples internet if...
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don christie el presidente of the open source society and blogger on newspaper site stuff has written a pretty direct piece about the ooxml standard and processes that led to it. the article was written for and published in the standards nz magazine where it ran next to an article from microsofts brett roberts who is in favour of ooxml. the standards nz magazine is a paperonly publication but don ...
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ooxml passage through iso certainly raised the profiles of national standard setting institutions. never in my short life had i seen them being thrust into the limelight. normally although their work are important and far reaching they rarely see the light of dayaor their work acknowledged. right now they are alist celebrities. before the ballot resolution meetings reports are in from mainly anti ...
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