Ken Walker said on Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 06:19:32PM +0000,: > I like what I see in OpenOffice and have plans to switch the support staff > over to the windows version of that package and then, if that works out, go > to an all Linux network.
Good strategy there. > Suddenly though, there is a problem. Our Law Society and the > provincial government have developed a new system for land title > registrations ( http://srmwww.gov.bc.ca/landtitle/EFS_web_site/) > and for corporate registry filings ( > http://srmwww.gov.bc.ca/landtitle/EFS_web_site/) That is a very bad thing. See http://www.gnu.org.in/philosophy/mitrules.html > The Land Title system require digital signatures and use pdf format > files for documents submitted. I am not sure at this point whether > the Corporate Registry requires digital signatures. The use of > Acrobat Standard v6 is required for Land Titles and it is only > available in MSWindows. See http://www.juricert.com/j2a/efs.htm. It is a very bad thing for governments to abdicate the job of laying down standards and worse, hand over sovereign functions to non-sovereign bodies. > Generally the various registries do not seem to recommend use of > anything but Windows and Mac software: Which is bad again. This is a form of denial of the right to access justice (ok - not exactly the judiciary, but once here, the same mentality will be carried over to the judiciary too, IMO) to people who use non-monopoly software. > software capable of editing pdf files and attaching a digital > signature the same way that Acrobat Standard does. What is the `Acrobat Standard'?? I have come across the portable document standard. It is very bad that the society calls it something different. -- +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ Mahesh T. Pai, LL.M., 'NANDINI', S. R. M. Road, Ernakulam, Cochin-682018, Kerala, India. http://paivakil.port5.com +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+
