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Friday, June 19, 2009

Serna XML editor goes Open Source!

Amazing news! Accordingly to the Syntext's announce Serna goes Open Source!

What exactly is known about:
  • It is going to happen in the course of month;
  • License: vanilla GNU GPL with FLOSS exceptions
Official announce is here: http://syntext.com/about/news/open-source/

What this means for the OSS community?
  • There will be an extensible and powerful Open Source XML platform to write and maintain various types of XML based documents;
  • Document formats such DocBook and DITA will become more popular due to availability of the excellent tool to maintain them; and other XML formats may grow -- depends on the community aims only;
  • There might be a dramatic growth of open documents formats to interchange. ODF is a good one, but not perfect and not so applicable in the all fields of the human specialization;
  • ... and have you ever dreamed about Open Source application for .fb2 (FictionBook) authoring? This and a lot of other things may come true one day.

Syntext, thank you for the surprise :).