Dear readers,

I would first like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. 2008 will be exciting, but most of you already know it.

Today I would like to tell you about something I have discussed here and on several other places, such as mailing lists. It is a key issue as it relates both to the topic of open standards, format adoption, and FOSS. It is intensely political, but also has some very real implications. This article by Bruce Byfield prompted me to discuss these matters in a more detailed fashion.

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