[ALUG] Open standards

[Frankosiligi Solomon]

We are heading there within few days/months.....

Stay tuned...

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Miku, E. Cornelius via Linux <
linux at lists.habari.co.tz> wrote:

> Waheshimiwa wa e-GA <http://www.ega.go.tz> mpo?
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> Miku
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> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 8:45 PM, Andreas Tauscher via Linux <
> linux at lists.habari.co.tz> wrote:
>
>> In 2014 UK government declared the ODF 1.2 format to the only valid
>> format in government and administration for documents which have to be
>> edited.
>>
>> Today the "Open Standards Prociples" has been updated.
>>
>> https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-standards-principles/open-standards-principles
>>
>> It is worth reading it.
>> Most of the points are not only valid for the public sector.
>> Also the private sector, individuals or companies should keep this in
>> mind:
>> A open standard might cause additional costs.
>> A proprietary format *will* cause additional costs and *will* cause
>> serious headache if you want/have to change the supplier.
>>
>> Actual ODF is the preferred or only(*) valid format in government and
>> administration in:
>> Belgium, Brazil, Croatia, Denmark, European Union, France, Germany,
>> Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, NATO*, Netherlands*, Norway*,
>> Poland, Portugal*, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea,
>> Sweden*, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom*, Uruguay, Venezuela
>>
>> ODF is since 2005 ISO standard (ISO/IEC 26300) and the default format of
>> LibreOffice and other Open Source software.
>> Microsoft Office 2013 supports ODF 1.2 Office 2017 and 2007SP2 only ODF
>> 1.1 And big surprise: Wordpad in Win 10 seems to support also ODF.
>>
>> Andreas
>>
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