Re: Good news - UK government officially adopts ODF

*Unfortunately, I think the educators are influenced by the
businesscommunity - e.g. teach Word skills, Dreamweaver skills, etc. :(*

Yes I agree - I heard first hand this week that Otago Polytech are still
funnelling students into needing Microsoft for their computing classes :( x2


On 24 July 2014 08:43, Kathinka <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On 24 July 2014 06:51, Chris Bannister <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jul 23, 2014 at 11:46:08PM +1200, Rob Pearson wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> In total agreement! and while we're at it get businesses to stop
>> emailing in HTML.
>>
>> Wasn't there something in the last few years about reducing the
>> Government's reliance on Microsoft ... ahh ...
>>
>>
>> http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/ntn/ntn-20090527-0908-Government_reliance_on_Microsoft.ogg
>>
>> Wouldn't the next step be targetting the education curriculum, e.g.
>> teach email as a text based medium on an OS independant platform, rather
>> than "You wanna learn email"? then opening Outlook and explaining the
>> features.
>>
>> Instead of teaching document preparation by immediately opening a word
>> processor, and then pointing out all the features, it should be taught
>> in an OS independant, program independant way.
>>
>> Unfortunately, I think the educators are influenced by the business
>> community - e.g. teach Word skills, Dreamweaver skills, etc. :(
>>
>>
>> Job advts where computer use is part of the job state that applicants
> need to be conversant with - and then name specific software instead of
> saying word processing or spreadsheets etc.
>
> Kathinka.
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