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Call for Asia to Adopt ODF

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the it's-all-about-the-file-formats dept.

Malek Indiam points out an article on ZDNet Asia about a push for Asian governments to wean themselves from proprietary file formats. From the article: "An official from the United Nations has called for countries in the Asia-Pacific region to embrace the OpenDocument format. Sunil Abraham, manager of the International Open Source Network (IOSN) at the U.N., told ZDNet Asia that most governments in the region have already stated their support for open standards, through their respective government interoperability frameworks. He hopes that governments in the region will now extend that support and "seriously consider" the OpenDocument Format (ODF)."

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  1. All for open standards....but by dontbflat · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I am all for the open standards that ODF has, but the one thing I dont like is that with any open standard, there are different interpretations of the same file. I will almost guarentee that when someone opens the same file with office 2007 and openoffice, that they will get different "versions" of the same file. Just something to think about.