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CC using non-standard Microsft formats?
user name
 2006-06-23 13:05:41 
Hi, I took a look a the new Microsoft Office deal with the
Creative 
Commons license being part of their montage.

Does CC have provisions for non-standard file formats with
their 
License? I would like to see CC not allow non-standard file
formats 
because this severely limits sharing and also people can get
arrested 
still for sharing non-standard formats.

How does this work?

Also good to see Pearl Jam going in new directions for the
industry by 
breaking away form the norm and putting their video under
CC. I think it 
will breathe much badly needed new life into that scene that
needs 
freedom and control from authors.

Thanks,
Mark
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CC using non-standard Microsft formats?
user name
 2006-06-23 17:50:52 

  


  

    On 6/23/06, Mark <gmail.com">gemtravelergmail.com> wrote:

Hi, I took a look a the new Microsoft Office deal with the Creative
Commons license being part of their montage.

Yeah, I think it looks pretty cool! 


Does CC have provisions for non-standard file formats with their
License?

Does it seem likely to you that CC would have some anti-Office license requirements, yet still collaborate with MS to create an Office add-in for CC licenses?


I would like to see CC not allow non-standard file formats
because this severely limits sharing and also people can get arrested

still for sharing non-standard formats.

Office file formats are by far a de facto standard for word processing documents, spreadsheets, and presentation graphics. They are supported by Free Software programs like Open Office, Koffice and AbiSuite.


Your second point is misleading. There are problems with circumventing copy protection schemes with some non-standard formats, but it's not the non-standardness that makes them illegal. 

Bringing easy Creative Commons licensing to the millions of Microsoft Office users in the world is an exceptionally good forward step. Instead of 
ad hominem attacks against Microsoft just because they're Microsoft, it might be better to congratulate them for making this move.

--Evan



  

  
  
   
     
    

  

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     user name

     2006-06-23 21:07:56
  


  

    
Evan Prodromou wrote:
>  Bringing easy Creative Commons licensing to the
millions of Microsoft
>  Office users in the world is an exceptionally good
forward step.
>  Instead of ad hominem attacks against Microsoft just
because they're
>  Microsoft, it might be better to congratulate them for
making this
>  move.

All true on the surface, but when a known killer starts
cozying up
to you, it's only natural to look for the knife.  I think
that's just 
healthy
self-preservation speaking. 

Cheers,
Terry

-- 
Terry Hancock (hancockAnansiSpaceworks.com)
Anansi Spaceworks http://www.AnansiSpac
eworks.com

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