Collaborative documentation projects on why use public standards and open formats and why avoid proprietary formats in data exchange.

Illustrates the principles behind format standardization and the practice of promoting formats interoperability.

Archive of standards relevant to the Open Source community, including licenses, public standards, protocols, RFCs.

Internet technologies and the economical challenge of open protocols.

What is a standard, what is an open standard, and why use open standards on the Internet.

Draws a distinction between open source advocacies and the promotion of public standards, warning against the confusion of these two initiatives.

Supports free ways to create, to distribute and display digital content by actively developing cross-platform solutions, such as Gnash.

An association of CAD customers and vendors committed to promoting open, industry-standard formats for the exchange of CAD data. History, members, FAQs, and published papers.

Initiative aiming to convince software companies to release data format documentation and to pass laws that governments can only store user data in open format. Presents its manifesto, forum, news, links to institutional resolutions.

Why not use proprietary formats and what are the main open alternatives.