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 fantastic step forwards and one i never expected to see. I'm still kinda in shock about it tbh.
Did anyone else here manage to make comments during the public consultation phases? I made a 'few' at the first one but then the whole proposal vanished from view so i thought it would "be the usual story". I think maybe people at MS haven't realised what it means or they underestimated it or something. I really don't understand why they didn't bulldoze it out of the way or turn it upside down by bamboozling non-IT people in government. Like i say i am pleasantly shocked and that makes me question about how effective it's likely to be in getting people to use formats that can be used by different programs on different platforms and on into the future. Maybe i am just too old and cynical but it's a bit weird to see a government doing the right thing!! Regards from Tom :) On 24 July 2014 09:08, Mark Stanton <m...@vowleyfarm.co.uk> wrote: > 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 mankind... > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
