More on China's Open Source Format (and much more)
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The slides are now available for the Chinese standards/open source conference I wrote about on November 8. The most interesting news I learned there was that China has been activelyl developing its own open document specification, which it calls Uniform Office Format. You can now see the full presentation of WU Zhi-gang here.
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The full index of presentations may be found at the conference page, and it's worth taking the time to scroll through the various slide sets. If you do, you will see Chinese perceptions and strategies relating to open standards and open source software developed quite fully by government officials, professors and the development community. The following excerpts, for example, are taken from a presentation by Guangnan Ni, a member of the China Academy of Engineering. Note how the points made weave together Chinese strategies as diverse as increasing intellectual property protections for the benefit of local industry rather than simply as a concession to foreign interests, promoting the development of domestic office suites through development and adoption of open document formats, and benefiting domestic industry through the power of government purchasing: [more]
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