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Re: Not disk format, file format. (none / 1)

Ok, I see the point. The thing is legislation is being produced to rule out the hypothesis of folk getting hostage to file formats. This is a big problem for the Public Administration, that in some cases has stranded itself by requiring information from citizens in proprietary formats.

In the long run this is a war commercial vendors will loose, at least in the Public Administration domain. And when the state starts universally requiring information in OpenDocument or other standard everyone will have to comply.

Vencit omnia veritas.

by Luis de Sousa (luis[dot]a[dot]de[dot]sousa[at]gmail[dot]com) on Fri Jan 30th, 2009 at 12:15:30 PM EST
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Re: Not disk format, file format. (none / 0)

has to be open doc as the default file format too in all software, not just as an option.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Jan 30th, 2009 at 01:14:44 PM EST
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