____/ 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.
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