On Dec 12, 10:34 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> NZ Ministry of Justice Open Source Position Paper [PDF]
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> | Industry standards may not be open (e.g., Microsoft Word file formats) so
> | there are reverse-engineering risks with any OSS dependent upon those
> | standards. The MoJ preference for open standards (e.g., Open Document Format,
> | which is now supported even by Microsoft) lessens this risk.
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> http://nzoss.org.nz/system/files/moj_oss_strategy_1.0.pdf
>
> Ministry of Justice, Open Source discussion paper
>
> http://www.geekzone.co.nz/foobar/4231
>
And Micro$oft is not going to be able to buy off politicians to force
the Ministry to keep using M$ products.
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