As I understand it this is now official government procedure, ie
law. Isn't that the case? I also understand that not all government
necessarily wants to abide by its own laws, but this directive seems
to be binding. Or have I misunderstod the intention?
Mark Stanton
One small step for
HI :)
I don't think it's law. I think it's suggested best-practice and general
guidelines. A bit like the Ferengi's Rules of Acquisition or the
pirate's code, hopefully. Plenty of people will argue against using it, or
make excuses or plead ignorance or just not do it = However it's still a
More people know what ODF is. They realise they don't have to buy
microsoft office at home to do school work and on it goes...
On 23/07/14 15:26, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
Even if it doesn't do anything else, at least it might force Microsoft
into adding proper support for ODF into
Hmm, a huge public response and A rigorous process was undertaken
which included considering over 500 public comments and talking
directly to users. I'd hoped huge was much bigger than that. Oh
well, at least the message got across.
Mark Stanton
One small step for mankind...
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On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 08:21:36 +1000
Tim Lloyd tim.ll...@gmx.com wrote:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/open-document-formats-selected-to-meet-user-needs
the link says it all. Let's hope this trend continues
Two governments in less than a week's time. Very good news! :)
Regards,
Jim
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Hi :)
It is lack of government support for ODF that is one of the biggest
blockers to my company migrating to
LibreOffice/OpenOffice/Anything-other-than-MSOffice. It is going to be
interesting to see if anyone in government takes any notice of this
proposal.
I'd really kinda like to know what
Hi :)
I have just forwarded this to the international translators co-ordination
mailing list as they were discussing the Kerala case, i've copied some of
the posting under this email
Regards from
Tom :)
Anivar Araind said:
The Kerala Legislative Assembly[1] (Kerala state , India) as of July 17,
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/open-document-formats-selected-to-meet-user-needs
the link says it all. Let's hope this trend continues
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Even if it doesn't do anything else, at least it might force Microsoft
into adding proper support for ODF into Office...
;-)
On 22/07/14 23:21, Tim Lloyd wrote:
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/open-document-formats-selected-to-meet-user-needs
the link says it all. Let's hope this trend
