ODF Alliance Hails Brazil, India, Italy, and Poland for Recognizing
OpenDocument Format
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| The OpenDocument Format Alliance (ODF Alliance), a broad
| cross-section of organizations, academia and industry dedicated
| to improving access to electronic government documents, today
| applauded Brazil's decision to recommend ODF as the government's
| preferred format; India's decision to use ODF at a major state
| government agency; and Italy's decision to recognize ODF as
| national standard.
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| The Alliance also recognized Poland, too, for demonstrating serious
| interest in adopting ODF in the wake of a national meeting held for
| its government with broad participants from industry and non-profit
| agencies.
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http://www5.sys-con.com/read/306120_p.htm
Goodbye, Microsoft Office (and associated lockins).
Someone just needs to pull OpenOffice out of Novell before it gets
'contaminated' with proprietary code and so-called IP or Microsoft code.
Also, while OpenOffice remains committed to ODF (stated explicitly in
Novell's Web site), it could be bent to please Microsoft (e.g. by embracing
or supporting Microsoft's competing OpenXML, another schema-based format
that is not suppoted by other software).
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