In other words, if I want to avoid receiving any more of those ultra-annoying ".doc" files, I just move to Norway?
It's worth it... Jerry Yeager wrote: > There was a lot of tech related news yesterday and this story seems to > have gotten lost by the mainstream press in all of that (I guess the > journalists are too worried about the short term impact of things like > Google's stock price -- hmm) > > http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/27/ > 1724237&threshold=-1&tid=198&tid=215&tid=109&tid=219 > > This news will have a big impact on things. > > Norway has announced that they (the Norwegian government) are moving > away from allowing documents, etc. that use proprietary file format to > those that use open standards (not quite the same thing as open source > that you hear about -- think Linux for open source). This is pretty big > because it will force software manufacturers (M$, Adobe, etc.) to open > up their undecipherable and closed file documents to ones that other > softwares can read and write to. > > While on the surface this may seem to be a small thing, Norway actually > has the clout to make it really take off. They are, after all, one of > the richest, most technologically advanced countries in today's world, > more so than the US is. This could pave the way to allow you to get a > word processor that can really read and write files that folks in other > states can read and write as well. > > Jerry > > ----------------------------------- > Someday, I will come up with a clever signature line. I am not sure if > I will use it or not, but I will come up with one. > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be July 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be July 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
