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OpenStandards.net  - http://www.openstandards.net/  A not-for-profit organization connecting people to open standards and the bodies that build and foster their growth.  Why There Are Not GIF Files on GNU Pages  - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/gif.html  Advocates against the use of image formats that are protected by patents. Presents a brief history of the GIF format as well as its open alternatives.  We Can Put an End to Word Attachments  - http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html  Richard Stallman's arguments against the use of proprietary formats in document exchange.  MS-Word Is Not a Document Exchange Format  - http://www.goldmark.org/netrants/no-word/attach.html  Explains the appropriate use of document formats and argues against the use of Word attachments.  Open Standards: Principles and Practice  - http://perens.com/OpenStandards/Definition.html  Illustrates the principles behind format standardization and the practice of promoting formats interoperability.  Sincere Choice  - http://sincerechoice.org/  Intercommunication and file formats should follow standards that are sincerely open for all to implement, without royalty fees or discrimination.  No Proprietary Binary Data Formats  - http://www.podval.org/%7Esds/data.html  Why not use proprietary formats and what are the main open alternatives.  Avoid E-Mail Attachments, Especially Microsoft Word  - http://bcn.boulder.co.us/~neal/attachments.html  Short document with instructions to MS-Word users on alternatives they can use for document exchange.  We Can Put an End to Word Attachments - A Discussion  - http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=02/01/10/1711238&mode=thread  Forum on Richard Stallman's document against file exchange in proprietary format.  Open Standards Repository  - http://openstandards.org/  Archive of standards relevant to the Open Source community, including licenses, public standards, protocols, RFCs.  Business Case for Open Standards  - http://www.openstandards.net/viewOSnet1C.jsp?showModuleName=businessCaseForOpenStandards  Paper investigating economical issues related to the diffusion of public standards.  The Free Standards Group  - http://www.freestandards.org/  A non-profit corporation to increase the use and acceptance of open source technologies through the application, development and promotion of standards.  Open Source versus Open Standards  - http://rss.com.com/2010-1071-995823.html  Draws a distinction between open source advocacies and the promotion of public standards, warning against the confusion of these two initiatives.  Cover Pages: Patents and Open Standards  - http://xml.coverpages.org/patents.html  Investigates the effects of patent proliferation and criticizes reasonable and non-discriminatory license terms (RAND) for patented technologies.  W3C Patent Policy  - http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Patent-Policy  Governs the handling of patents in the process of producing Web standards. The goal of this policy is to assure that Recommendations produced under this policy can be implemented on a Royalty-Free (RF) basis.  Open File Format Definition  - http://www.anansispaceworks.com/Documentation/BuildImage/Legal/tosi.openformatdef.2003.03.19.html  Definition proposed and discussed on the Texas Open Source Initiative Mailing List, as part of an initiative to promote the use of such standards in government projects.  Burn All GIFs  - http://burnallgifs.org  Campaign for replacing the patent-encumbered GIF format by open standard graphics.  Attachments in Proprietary Formats Considered Harmful  - http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/email.html  Explains the risks of exchanging data in non-public format and suggests the main alternatives.  Why Not Word!  - http://www.rfc1149.net/documents/whynotword.html.en  Why not using Word, Excel or any other proprietary format to communicate.  Death to Proprietary Word Formats  - http://homepages.borland.com/ccalvert/Opinion/WordFormats.html  Argues in favor of using HTML instead of proprietary word formats.  Open Standards  - http://www.wigglebits.com/standards.html  What is a standard, what is an open standard, and why use open standards on the Internet.  The Principles of Open Standards  - http://www.csrstds.com/openstds.html  Ken Krechmer analyzes the distinct issues behind advocacy for non-proprietary formats.  Software Standards versus Protocol Standards  - http://www.clock.org/~fair/opinion/open-standards.html  How open standards may help mitigate or prevent "customer lock-in" strategies.  Open Standards-The Only Option  - http://www.sdtimes.com/opinions/guestview_029.htm  Internet technologies and the economical challenge of open protocols.  Build Systems, Not Companies, on Open Standards  - http://intranetjournal.com/articles/200202/gb_02_20_02a.html  Without standards, every job is a one-off, and vendor lock-in is assured after the first project. Open standards are the beating heart of e-Business, without which concepts like intranets and business-to-business commerce would not be practical on a mass scale.  Open Data Format Initiative  - http://odfi.org/  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.  Please don't send me Microsoft Word documents  - http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~miller/no-word  A discussion of the problems of MSWord as a document exchange format and what alternatives are available. Suitable for a non-technical audience.  Streaming media: A case for open standards  - http://news.com.com/2010-1025_3-5099118.html  Benefits of the development of open specifications for audio and video formats. By Rich Mavrogeanes.  Openformats.org  - http://www.openformats.org/  Collaborative documentation projects on why use public standards and open formats and why avoid proprietary formats in data exchange.  LinuxLab - Open Standards  - http://linuxlab.dk/openstandards/  Argues in favor of patent-free standards and suggests recommended formats for different kinds of content.