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

....and just to add - great news Rob, let's hope our government takes
note...
:N


On 24 July 2014 17:51, Rob Pearson <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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