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Re: [News] MIT Chooses Open Source for Archiving, EU Chooses Unified Standard

Mark Kent wrote:

> So we, the taxpayer, have to *pay* to have *our* data locked into a
> proprietary format which will never be readable on standard platforms,

huh?  http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/HA010449811033.aspx



> supplied by a company which cannot even manage to add a proper ODF
> format to its office suite, and pushed by a guy, Adam Farquhar, who
> *we* pay for, who chairs an OOXML "standards" committee.
>
> This is just beyond anything you could imagine.  Can we get this guy
> moved to a more suitable job - in Microsoft, say?

Better that than having him sit on his ass twiddling with hobby-crap-ware at 
taxpayer expense. 



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