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My favorite FSF campains

Jun 8, 2008
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Here are some of my favorite FSF campains some of which i only discovered today !

BIOS http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html
GNASH (SWF player) http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
Audio File Format http://www.fsf.org/resources/formats/playogg
PDF http://gnupdf.org/
DRM http://defectivebydesign.org/
DRM http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/drm.html
Dot GNU http://www.gnu.org/software/dotgnu/

OpenRAW and RAW digital camera image formats

Feb 14, 2008
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OpenRAW want "camera manufacturers to publicly document their RAW image formats — past, present, and future. The goal of OpenRAW is to encourage image preservation and give creative choice of how images are processed to the creators of the images. To this end, we advocate open documentation of information about the how the raw data is stored and the camera settings selected by the photographer."

http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw

There IS an ANSI C program that attempts to decode any raw image from any digital camera on any computer running any operating system.That program is called dcraw (pronounced "dee-see-raw"), and it's become a standard tool within and without the Open Source world. It's small (about 8000 lines), portable (standard C libraries only), free (both "gratis" and "libre"), and when used skillfully, produces better quality output than the tools provided by the camera vendor.

ODF <> OOXML

Mar 6, 2007

OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC ODF) which is used by Sun OpenOffice.org
http://www.odfalliance.org/

IS NOT THE SAME AS

Office Open XML (EMCA OOXML) which is used by MS Office
The British Standards Institute, which represents the UK with the International Standards Organisation, has issued what is called a "contradiction" to Microsoft's specification.