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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. Who cares? We do. by HugePedlar · · Score: 4, Insightful

    One might ask 'who cares', but the rising techological literacy of Asian countries, coupled with the increasing outsourcing of Western companies, means that these nations' policies might well encourage Western governments and companies to standardise on open formats as well. After all, if your Asian employees are already using it and it's cheap, why not make it company policy too.

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  2. Better use of UN time by alienmole · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why is the UN wasting its time on Asia-Pacific, when it could be recommending that Israel and Hezbollah "seriously consider" adopting Microsoft Office? The shared trauma of dealing with Office will surely bring the two sides closer, eventually leading to a ceasefire after Clippy the paperclip pops up one too many times.

    1. Re:Better use of UN time by HugePedlar · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Maybe the UN is composed of many different departments which are capable of doing more than one thing at a time?

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