After a month of news largely dominated by pro-ODF announcements, such as the release of ODF-compliant office suites, patent non-assertion pledges and the like, the opposition has just lowered the boom. And if they are successful, it's a big one.
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Member since:2005-07-02
HTML, like ODF, is an open standard. It's up to MS to support it. If they don't, they are shutting themselves out of the market.
ODF makes sense. It fosters competition. It make sure the citizenry isn't subjected to vendor lock-in. It's an open standard.
I'm sorry, but there's no real defense for your position other than "protecting MS's monopoly is in the public good" which simply makes no sense.
Member since:2005-07-06
I'm sorry, but there's no real defense for your position other than "protecting MS's monopoly is in the public good" which simply makes no sense.
Apparently you didn't read my post then.
The government should make documents as accessible as possible. If this meant making them available as word files, then so be it.
But again, PDF and/or HTML would probably be the best solution by far for publishing documents, NOT ODF or DOC.
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2005-07-06
You may be right. I hope they don't force ODF on citizens by publishing as ODF. HTML and PDF would defeinitely be much better.