In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Roy Schestowitz
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wrote
on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 18:05:55 +0100
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> ____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 09 August 2007 13:45 : \____
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>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> Little progress in states' ODF considerations
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>| In extrapolating the dangers posed by the continued use of Microsoft's
>>>| formats the expert cited issues that rescue workers faced in accessing
>>>| records maintained by local government entities when aiding in the relief
>>>| of victims of the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean, in which an estimated
>>>| 300,000 people were killed,.
>>> `----
>>>
>>>
> http://www.infoworld.nl/idgns/bericht.phtml?id=002570DE00740E18002573300079DCFE
>>>
>>
>> One has to wonder just how many lives could've been saved if we'd had
>> proper open standards in place, rather than the proprietary, incomplete
>> mess which is OOXML, or in that case, older versions of Microsoft Office
>> which have been deliberately constructed to make them difficult for
>> non-Microsoft products to read.
>
> Working Linux Emergency Response System
> Undermined at Homeland Security by Microsoft Lobbying
> ^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> ,----[ Overview ]
> | LAMP is at the heart of Emergency Response Network Systems and is
> | saving lives. But recently, Microsoft maneuvered into taking the system
> | away from a Free Software vendor.
> `----
>
> http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/57181/
<sarcasm> Good show, Microsoft! </sarcasm>
To be fair, they've painted themselves into a
bit of a lose-lose situation here:
- they lose creds (and business) if they don't try to get business
- they lose creds if they try and lose business, as that means
their system is provably inferior
- they lose creds if they win, as that means they're a bully
Oops.
>
>
> Your data or your life
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | As unlikely and alarmist as this sounds, it could really happen. Intracare
> | is the publisher of a popular practice management system called Dr. Notes.
> | When some doctors balked at a drastic increase in their annual software
> | lease, they were cut off from accessing their own patients? information.
> |
> | This situation is completely unconscionable. There can be no truly
> | open doctor-patient relationship when an unrelated third party is the
> | de facto owner of and gatekeeper to all related data.
> `----
>
> http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/1709
>
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