On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 01:41:54PM +0300, Uri Even-Chen wrote: > > > >And recently Massachusetts declared it to be the official documents > >format for all govrement workers as of 2007. Which probably means > >MS-Office will be forced to support it as well by then. > > And what happens until 2007? They will keep using "Word Document" > formats? Why wait 2 years? > > >It's a free market. Then can either support the new standard and still > >keep that client or not support it and force the every civil servant to > >have OpenOffice (or a different conforming word processor) installed on > >his/her desktop. > > I agree. It's good to have a standard. But why only in Massachusetts? > And why only in government offices? Why not include lawyers & business > offices too? [lawyers use almost 100% MS Office formats. Believe me, I > know].
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