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Our open standards articles explore the movement to create community-developed, non-proprietary, and open requirements, specifications, guidelines for technologies.

Celebrating open standards around the world

October 14 is World Standards Day, and to celebrate, Opensource.com is launching a new resource to...

Rikki Endsley (Red Hat) 14 Oct 2016 160 votes

The rise of the shareable document

Using open document formats could create a domino effect where more and more work is modified and...

Steven Ovadia 09 Sep 2016 214 votes 4 comments

The future of sharing: integrating Pydio and ownCloud

A new open standard supported by the OpenCloudMesh project is a big step toward interoperability.

Ben van 't Ende 19 May 2016 336 votes 2 comments

How an open standard API could revolutionize banking

Open bank data will give us the freedom to access all banks in real time and from a single view,...

Noel Peatfield 30 Apr 2015 299 votes 1 comment

You can now petition the European Union to 'fix my document'

Open Forum Europe has initiated an effort to help the European Union (EU) institutions live up to...

Paul Brownell (Red Hat) 03 Feb 2015 165 votes 2 comments

Web inventor predicts cultural shift, Apache powers half the Internet, and more

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at an interview with Sir Tim...

Robin Muilwijk 21 Nov 2014 126 votes

The future of Linux, open standards for improved security, and more

In this week's edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at the future of Linux, open...

Robin Muilwijk 24 Oct 2014 139 votes

Where new European Commission leaders stand on open source

As Neelie Kroes leaves the office of the European Commission's VP of the Digital Agenda, we take a...

Paul Brownell (Red Hat) 14 Oct 2014 186 votes 1 comment

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