{"id":3588,"date":"2014-02-03T09:52:12","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T09:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=3588"},"modified":"2014-02-03T10:08:04","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T10:08:04","slug":"rent-your-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=3588","title":{"rendered":"Rent your freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who uses MS Office will know that .docx (<em>otherwise known as Microsoft Word Office Open XML Format. Ed.<\/em>) is a file format used by MS Word.<\/p>\n<p>As a proprietary file format, there&#8217;s always a risk of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vendor_lock-in\">vendor-lock-in<\/a> with .docx and its fellow Office file formats.<\/p>\n<p>That said, this vehicle rental firm has an most apposite slogan on its vehicles, particularly as Microsoft has now moved MS Office onto subscription licensing with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Microsoft_Office_365\">MS Office 365<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2014\/02\/docx.jpg\" alt=\"image of van bearing wording DOCX Rental, Rent Your Freedom\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3589\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2014\/02\/docx.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2014\/02\/docx-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To avoid renting freedom where your data is concerned, this blog recommends using free and open document formats, like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/OpenDocument\">Open Document Format<\/a> (ODF).<\/p>\n<p>Next month sees Document Freedom Day 2014 (DFD) being held on 26th. DFD&#8217;s aims are to promote information accessibility and raise awareness of open standards. More details and resources are available on the <a href=\"http:\/\/documentfreedom.org\/\">DFD website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hat tip: <a href=\"https:\/\/fsfe.org\/\">FSFE<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone who uses MS Office will know that .docx (otherwise known as Microsoft Word Office Open XML Format. Ed.) is a file format used by MS Word. As a proprietary file format, there&#8217;s always a risk of vendor-lock-in with .docx and its fellow Office file formats. That said, this vehicle rental firm has an most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,9],"tags":[24,11,23],"class_list":["post-3588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-standards","category-tech","tag-odf","tag-open-standards","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3588"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3593,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions\/3593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}