Fear! That should work!
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| So Mr Cheong pleaded to us, "Dont give up this chance for Malaysia to be
| heard. If we vote Disapprove, Malaysia will NEVER be on that table! We have
| already implemented OOXML in our products, and if its not standardised, the
| format will change!"
|
| Oh Noes! Malaysia will be blacklisted! Microsoft will go dark again! We will
| never see the light in our documents ever! The world is going to end!
|
| Yeah. Fear. Uncertainty. Nice try.
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2008/03/fear-that-shoul.html
Meanwhile, in Germany:
The German Plan for Open Standards
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| The SAGA 4.0 document itself (PDF, 2.4 MB) states on page 114 that the Open
| Document Format (ODF) version 1.0 is a "Recommended" standard...
|
| [...]
|
| And it continues with stating PDF 1.4 as a mandatory standard (PDF 1.5 is a
| recommended standard, PDF 1.6 is a standard under observation).
|
| What are "Recommended" standards, "Mandatory" standards and standards "Under
| Observation"? Page 20 and page 21 explain the designations in full...
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http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2008/03/the-german-plan.html
Recent:
DE: One fifth of Freiburg city council migrated to OpenOffice
,----[ Quote ]
| In the German city of Freiburg, four hundred of the two thousand PCs used by
| the city council are now running OpenOffice.
|
| The migration to the Open Source suite of office applications is a
| intermediate goal, saving the city up to half a million euro in licence
| costs. The city's final aim is to switch to an Open Source desktop.
|
| The council began its office application migration last July, when it decided
| to use the ISO-approved Open Document Format (ODF) as a document standard.
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7538
Germany upgrades ODF to "recommended"
,----[ Quote ]
| The new version 4.0 of the document "Standards and Architectures for
| eGovernment Applications" (SAGA) by the German Ministry of the Interior now
| recommends ODF for text documents.
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http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/germany_upgrades_odf_to_recommended
German county adopts OpenOffice.org
,----[ Quote ]
| According to this German article, the German county "Friesland" is adoption
| open source including OpenOffice.org. OpenOffice.org will be installed on the
| majority of the client systems.
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http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/german_county_adopts_openoffice_org
German penal institutions looking into OpenOffice.org
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| It looks like that OpenOffice.org is also being used in areas where many of
| us don't expect it, or wouldn't research for. I have reports that some German
| penal institutions are looking into OpenOffice.org for their daily office
| work.
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http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/02/german-penal-institutions-looking-into.html
[German] Federal Employment Office switches to Linux
http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/102218
Mayor of Munich opposes OOXML being made a Standard (German)
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| Munich's mayor Christian Ude says in a letter to the Federal Minister for
| Economics and Technology, Michael Glos, he thinks there should be a
| clear "no" to the standardization of OOXML. The German Institute for
| Standardization (DIN) is currently evaluating how to vote in the ISO
| standardisation procedure. All the city needs, Ude indicates, is OpenDocument
| Format (ODF), already an ISO standard, and he believes competition is
| weakened by a competiting standards....
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http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Muenchner-Oberbuergermeister-lehnt-ISO-Standardisierung-von-OOXML-ab--/meldung/105074
http://www.groklaw.net/newsitems.php
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