Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ Mark Kent on Saturday 03 November 2007 14:54 : \____
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>> ____/ Mark Kent on Saturday 03 November 2007 12:05 : \____
>>>
>>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>>> German Foreign Office comes out in favor of Open Document Format
>>>>>
>>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>| Mr. Yadava declared ODF to be a way out of the current file format chaos
>>>>>| that went hand-in-hand with a high risk of data loss. In other parts of
>>>>>| India too there is no longer any way around the Open Document Format. "We
>>>>>| no longer accept Word documents," Yatindra Singh, a judge at the High
>>>>>| Court in Allahabad, declared. These were not easy to convert into
>>>>>| ODF-compatible files, he stated.
>>>>>|
>>>>>| In Munich where a Linux migration is in progress ODF, according to
>>>>>| Florian Schießl of the LiMux Project Office, helps reduce the flood of
>>>>>| templates and macros in the municipal government and push through more
>>>>>| uniform file management standards. Office Open XML (OOXML), Microsoft's
>>>>>| thwarted candidate for a second open ISO document standard would, in the
>>>>>| opinion of Mr. Schießl, not be suitable for comparable tasks because of
>>>>>| its complexity.... Following a decision reached by the city's municipal
>>>>>| council at the end of June and not yet made public in a big way the
>>>>>| municipal administration of Freiburg in southern Germany will in future
>>>>>| rely entirely on PDF and ODF. ...
>>>>>|
>>>>>| According to Horst Bräuner, the IT director of the German city of
>>>>>| Schwäbisch-Hall, ODF will be adopted as file format by all agencies and
>>>>>| departments of the city next year. Criticism of OpenOffice tended to
>>>>>| evaporate rapidly, he remarked.
>>>>> `----
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/98208
>>>>>
>>>>> On OOXML, Microsoft seems to have corrupted Germany at the time (see
>>>>> below). Microsoft can carry on bribing people and cracking down on piracy
>>>>> for the last ounces of gold, but people are moving elsewhere.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It was quite surprising that it had been so easy for Microsoft to
>>>> corrupt the governments of Sweden and Germany; these are countries I
>>>> would've put nearer the top of the "honesty" table.
>>>
>>> I think there is /another/ way to look at this. Almost /ALL/ countries were
>>> the victim of Microsoft's coordinated manipulation
>>> (corruption/fraud/bribery/extortion), but only in countries where there's a
>>> sharp eye watching that stuff like a hawk were these things reported
>>> (sometimes as anonymous leaks in sites like Groklaw.net, even
>>> boycottnovell.com). Detection means that corruption was intercepted. Quiet
>>> means not that all was calm and peaceful. In Colombia, for example, almost
>>> the entire panel comprised Microsoft employees, but the press /totally/
>>> ignored it.
>>>
>>> Luckily, we've got a lot of that stuff recorded (with people's names even),
>>> for good.
>>>
>>
>> The only way to stop such corruption is to publicly call it. The
>> internet offers a reasonably safe way of doing so. I would imagine if
>> people in Colombia called it, then they'd be getting a "visit".
>
> As far as Colombia goes, I think it was Pieter and the guys at <NO>OOXML that
> called it. Some people on the Net still search the Web to find out what
> happened in their country. They get some answers. Sometimes they get list of
> names of people in panels... named and shamed.
>
>
The internet is a great leveller!
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