Title: The situation looks very bright Date: 2008-03-12 11:38 Author: Femke Tags: News, Tools, Standards + Formats Slug: the-situation-looks-very-bright Status: published In the summer of 1997, the [NLNet Foundation](http://nlnet.nl) sold its commercialized internet provision activities to UUNET (the internet subsidiary of WorldCom). This created a fund from which the foundation now supports activities that provide network technology to the community and keep outcomes in the "public domain". NLnet has picked *Identity*, *Privacy & Presence* and *Open Document Format* as the two main areas it will focus its funding on: > A self-imposed social acceptance of closed formats is sometimes > difficult to break through, but with the dominant binary formats of > the past being deprecated by their vendors themselves the situation > looks very bright.