____/ 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.
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