____/ Mark Kent on Monday 24 September 2007 20:45 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Medvedev ? Reiman: 720 mln. for open source school software
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| The open source software developers were presented by the general directors
>>| of the companies ALTLinux - Alexey Smirnov, Linux Ink ? Leonid Soms,
>>| Infra-resource ? Nikolai Garbuz, Linux-Online executive director Timofei
>>| Korolev, and the technical director of the IT center of the All-Russian
>>| scientific and research institute of control automation in the
>>| non-industrial sphere Dmitry Efanov.
>> `----
>>
>> http://eng.cnews.ru/news/top/indexEn.shtml?2007%2F09%2F21%2F267224
>>
>>
>> Related:
>>
>> Russia is latest country to move towards OpenDocument format and open
>> standards
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| The stated rationale for this legislation is that ?open standards will
>>| contribute to an increased number of bidders for government contracts and
>>| will increase opportunities for Russian software developers... [and] the
>>| problem of interoperability will be addressed as will the ability to access
>>| information into the future.?
>> `----
>>
>>
http://www.itrportal.com/absolutenm/templates/article-docsoft.aspx?articleid=4410&zoneid=57
>>
>
> What's amazing is that Microsoft thought that they could fix this
> problem by corrupting the ISO standardisation process. What they so
> commensurately failed to understand, oddly, the same thing which our
> local Microsoft shills/trolls also fail to grasp, is that open-source
> software provides the /real/ standard, the source-code is a better
> definition language than anything else out there. And it's far far
> better than nearly 1,000 pages of proprietary XML full of bugs, binary
^^^^^
> blobs and missing parts and "patented" works.
It's over 6,000 pages and it's /very/ incomplete/. The diplomats at the top
fail to understand this. Do a YouTube search on 'microsoft fud', IIRC, and see
4 videos at the top. They show you Microsoft's lobbyists (ACT) tossing cr*p to
intercept an open standard bill in California. Disgusting!
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