Fwd: Re: Good news - UK government officially adopts ODF

forwarded from Dave Lane:

Yes, this is huge, Rob. For any of you not on the NZOSS list, I've
initiated a discussion on OpenChat - see here if you want to subscribe:
http://lists.nzoss.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/openchat

Cheers,

Dave

On 23/07/14 23:46, 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.
>
> 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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