[ALUG] Open standards

[Miku, E. Cornelius]

Ooh, good news.

Patiently waiting...

-- 
Miku

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 12:05 PM, Frankosiligi Solomon <franco.noc at gmail.com
> wrote:

> 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?
>>
>> --
>> Miku
>> *Internet Provider with a Difference*
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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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