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EU IDA Study On OSS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the making-it-work-in-the-world dept.

Werner writes ""European Commission Interchange of Data between Administration" (EU IDA) study on the use of open source software in the European public sector - you can get it in PDF or DOC."

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  1. Re:.doc? by pinkNoise · · Score: 4, Flamebait
    Interesting that they publish a study on OSS in .doc, MS's *closed* doc format.

    Because free software WYSIWYG word processors are inferior, and because M$Word is the defacto standard in corporate and goverment officies.

    How many would have been able to read an AbiWord document? Or an OpenOffice document?

    They did produce a PDF too, so it's not like they are completely closing the document.

    Preferably they should have released it in plain text or HTML too, as you said, or RTF. Of course that would have lost the fancy formatting.

    Seems like we need a good open standardized WYSIWYG oriented xml based format for editing and storage. PDF and PS is a bit problematic to load into an editor... How good are the various formats used by open source word processors and office suites? Could they settle on one format to standardize?

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    pinkNoise