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Re: [News] Germany Deals Official Blow to Microsoft: ODF Adoption


Roy Schestowitz wrote:

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> Germany Joins Growing Ranks of Governments Adopting ODF
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> | The ODF Alliance welcomed the decision by the Federal Government of
> | Germany to implement use of the OpenDocument Format (ODF) by federal
> | agencies beginning in 2010.
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> | "2008 will end on a high note, with Germany joining the growing ranks of
> | governments that have adopted ODF," said ODF Alliance managing director
> | Marino Marcich. To date, 16 national and 8 provincial governments have
> | now formally recommended or required the use of ODF by government
> | agencies and with the public.(1)
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> http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story
Germany-Joins-Growing-Ranks-Governments/story.aspx?guid=
7BF43476E0-FEAA-45C3-9655-7148332F77FD%7D
> 
> So it's official now. Germany is no "developing country".


What a turn of events the last 3 years has been.
This year to end with micoshaft being routed from
many a places starting with government agencies
and ending in the high street with Linux laptops sales
taking up the most prominent selling display areas.




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