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UK Government Solicits Advice On Open Source

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the you-have-til-march dept.

Imran Ghory writes: "The UK government has put out a consultation paper on the use of open source software in government,background research into OSS commisioned by the government is also available, including a comparision of OSS office suites." Check out the formats in which the document is available.

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  1. Re:Okay... by tmark · · Score: 3, Interesting

    PDF is well understood but PDF now has form input widgets and scripting.

    There isn't an open source viewer that can render these.

    Though you intended your post as a knock on the British government, your post stands as a stronger indictment of open source. If open source can't provide people with a viewer that can render one of the world's most widely used formats, then there is something seriously wrong with the blind faith that the open source world is going to provide the tools that everyone else needs to work.

  2. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Comment removed based on user account deletion