Good news - UK government officially adopts ODF

Some good news,  back in February there were hundreds of submissions 
supporting ODF to be adopted as the UK Government standard for editable 
documents.   If you submitted, well done, as this was successful. 
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/open-document-formats-selected-to-meet-user-needs

This isn't to be confused with open source software,  'Open Standards' 
also enable proprietary software vendors to flourish, plus allows all 
other businesses to break out of the stifling vendor lock-in 
environments currently creamed by Microsoft and their cross-licensed 
colluder Apple.

Now if our NZ government could change its recommendation from 
Microsoft's 'proprietary' OOXML file format to the Open Document Format. 
   And while at it,  change things so that our government websites are 
mandated to be tested on a minimum of a cross platform(vendor) web 
browser,  currently most are only coded/tested for Microsoft Internet 
Explorer and/or Microsoft Windows operating systems, surprisingly this 
includes websites mandated to support 'web standards' today.

Some interesting comments were made in the UK review, including the 
hopelessness expressed by mmeeks3 with regards to the impossible 
interpretation of Microsoft's 'proprietary' yet supposedly open OOXML 
file format specification:  'compare the OOXML standard to 'Classical 
Greek' - a highly inflected, extremely complex language which, to add 
insult to injury is frequently written in capitals with no inter-word 
spacing.'
http://standards.data.gov.uk/proposal/sharing-collaborating-government-documents?page=14

Rob

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