March 28, 2007 8:26 AM PDT
Oregon eyeing open formats
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Though the XML-based Open Document Format (ODF) supported by IBM, Sun Microsystems and others, could be used to fulfill the requirements, the bill's wording as it stands now would not make ODF mandatory. The bill does say that the open format chosen by the agency or library must be open-source and guided by one of the major standards organizations such as the American National Standards Institute, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, or the International Organization for Standardization, which supports both ODF and Microsoft's proposed Office Open XML formats.
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The lawsn't needed from a public policy stadndpoint, and if I had stock in that NY-based company, I'd be concerned as a sharehoilder that my offerings needed liberal government's help/subsidy to survive in the market place.
Sell short, buddies.
This law and the faulty assumptions it's built upon exists as yet another example of junk marketing laundered through the ever-ready political process.
Oregon's requirement specifies Open Source - which means that later generations can actually read the thing... It doesn't specify a brand of word processor.
Have you ever had to get a copy of your birth certificate? If it wasn't copied/notarized directly from a xerox of the original paper document, it likely had to go through half a dozen iterations just to keep it readable to the computer that brought it up for printing. Now it would only have to be kept in one format.
/P
things right for once... :)
- New York
- by cekortech March 29, 2007 11:05 AM PDT
- I wish New York would follow the ODF path.
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(9 Comments)Nothing more annoying than working with an
Attorney who has files backed up on 3.5 inch
floppies in MS office Version 2.