OpenDocument and Qt fonts goodness
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| Like South Africa Adopts ODF, German Foreign Office comes out in favor of ODF
| and there are various articles going over how Holland and Belgium are
| steadilly switching governments but also schools over to ODF.
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http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2007/11/10/opendocument-and-qt-fonts-goodness/
The 3 people who were not associated with ODF close down the garage, which is
good news to ODF.
Open Document Foundation closes up shop
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| Not everyone who was a Foundation member agreed with this decision. For
| example, open source developers and ODF supporters David Wheeler and Bruce
| D'Arcus seeing the Foundation's new direction, left the Foundation and are
| continuing to support ODF.
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http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS8154016683.html
Related:
German Foreign Office comes out in favor of Open Document Format
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| 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.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/98208
What Happened in Germany [on OOXML]
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| It looks like Germany is the new Portugal, actually. You do remember how in
| Portugal IBM and Sun were not allowed in the room because it was
| allegedly "too small" despite having empty chairs? Well, in Germany, Google
| and Deutsche Telekom were allowed in the room but were not allowed to vote,
| heise says.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070824123112581
Swiss Cheese [for OOXML]
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| The present spin doctors of Microsoft and ECMA managed to convince Mr.
| Thomann to reject every serious technical and general concern we had
| regarding OOMXL by pointing to compatibility reasons. At the end we had a
| majority against Microsoft but which (giving the unfair rules) results in a
| Swiss vote for Microsoft. Mr. Thomann was fretting and fuming at the end of
| the meeting how it can be that successful international companies (we had
| representatives from IBM, Google, ...) vote against the best interest of
| their customers and theirself!
|
| Yes, this is how the democratic system at SNV / ISO works. After the meeting
| I could not eat as much as I wanted to puke...
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http://www.noooxml.org/forum/t-15521/swiss-cheese
ODF Alliance hails record growth in application support for ODF
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| In total, there are now more than two dozen ODF-supporting text, spreadsheet,
| and presentation applications announced in the past three months
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http://enterpriselinuxlog.blogs.techtarget.com/2007/10/26/odf-alliance-hails-record-growth-application-support-for-odf/
South Africa adopts ODF as govt standard
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| The South African government yesterday announced the adoption of OpenDocument
| Format (ODF) as a standard for government communications.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=$id&src=digg
Malaysia formally embraces open doc format
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| The Malaysian government today announced plans to adopt open standards and
| the Open Document Format (ODF) within the country's public sector.
|
| [...]
|
| In July this year, Japan became the first country in the Asia-Pacific region
| to embrace open software standards. Last August, the United Nations urged
| countries in the region to adopt the ODF.
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62030781,00.htm
Government of Japan Embraces Open Software Standards
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| The OpenDocument Format Alliance (ODF Alliance), the leading organization
| advocating for openness and accessibility to government documents and
| information, today congratulated Japan for adopting a policy under which
| government ministries and agencies will solicit bids from software vendors
| whose products support internationally recognized open standards.
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http://www.govtech.com/gt/126612?topic=117674
Netherlands Picks ODF
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| Frank Heemskerk, Minister of Economic Affairs, announced today that ODF will
| be the standard for reading, publishing and the exchange of information for
| all governmental organisations. The deadline is January 2009.
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http://gotze.eu/2007/09/netherlands-picks-odf.html
Opendocument_adoption
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| Contents
|
| * 1 United States
| o 1.1 Massachusetts
| + 1.1.1 References
| o 1.2 Other states and organizations in the US
| + 1.2.1 References
| * 2 Europe
| o 2.1 EU Definition of an open standard
| o 2.2 United Kingdom
| + 2.2.1 Bristol City Council
| o 2.3 Belgium
| o 2.4 Finland
| o 2.5 Slovakia
| * 3 Other governments
| o 3.1 Australia
| o 3.2 India
| o 3.3 Japan
| o 3.4 Malaysia
| o 3.5 Peru
| o 3.6 Vietnam
| o 3.7 Other
| * 4 See also
| * 5 References
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opendocument_adoption
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