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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. go without saying by jandar · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "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"

    Incedible this isn't self-evident for any government.