____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 09 August 2007 13:45 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Little progress in states' ODF considerations
>>
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>>| 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,.
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http://www.infoworld.nl/idgns/bericht.phtml?id=002570DE00740E18002573300079DCFE
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>
> 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
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| 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.
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http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/57181/
Your data or your life
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| 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.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/node/1709
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