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Belgium Chooses OpenDocument

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the land-of-the-free-format dept.

Freggy writes "The Belgian government decided today that all public services should use open standard file formats for the exchange of office documents ( press release in Dutch, French). The reason is that they don't want to force people to have to buy a proprietary program to be able to read official documents. All federal public services should be able to read ODF files by September 2007. If no problems arise after a study, the use of the file format will be obligatory from September 2008."

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  1. Re:MODERATION ABUSE!!! NOT A TROLL by Mini-Geek · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    The parent comment is a factual statement rebutting a point in the summary of the story. Why it is modded -1 Troll is peculiar. Perhaps some zealous moderator doesn't like an inconvenient truth that gets in the way of their worldview.
    Something he said doesn't have to be false for him to be a troll. It is not the fact that he presented the facts that made him a troll, it is how he presented the facts that made him a troll.
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    do {print "Mini-Geek Rules!\n";}
    until ($TheEndOfTheWorld);
  2. Re:Free? by fractalrock · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh, for crying out loud. If I give you a free hotdog at my shop do I need to give you the ingredient list and recipe too?