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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:Bad Reason Then by Shut+the+fuck+up! · · Score: -1, Troll

    What the fuck are you talking about? You are a fucking moron. Have you ever used linux? Obviously not. PunkOfLinux indeed. You are like a prison bitch, you are not gay but you take it up the ass anyway. Except in your case you don't use linux but you blow it out your ass like you do. I think your mommy is calling. Something about your cookies and milk being ready.