Dutch ODF Plan Could Sideline Microsoft

Yeti7226 sends word of a discussion coming up Wednesday in the parliament of The Netherlands that could result in mandated use of Open Document Format at government agencies there. If the plan is enacted, public-sector organizations, as well as the government, would have to transition to using ODF by 2010. Microsoft Netherlands has lobbied hard against the provision. Backers say it doesn't exclude Microsoft, because ODF can be produced out of MS Office via the use of plugins. A funder of the OpenDoc Society invited Microsoft to join that organization, saying: "This plan is not about Microsoft, it's about ensuring the perpetual availability of data without any obstacles."

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What? A country with BALLS????

[davidsyes]

Would be nice if they charge ahead with the hardline, and not only sideLINE but sideSWIPE msoft by cramming their durable balls across ms' face.... Better yet, suffocate ms, cut off THEIR air supply, for a change... Could be a HAIRY, intense experience, ehh? I wonder how much collective mucous ms could generate to get those brave balls out of their nostrils and mouth... Could give "XP" a whole new meaning of "e-X-X-X-Perience"

Nice one: "This plan is not about Microsoft, it's about ensuring the perpetual availability of data without any obstacles."

I guess my pre-frontal cortex saw "OBstacles" and latched on to (metaphorically) to "testicles" and hence this post-anal-vortex of trash spewing forth...

Now, if only the good name of the Netherlands can be used to put ms into the the never-never land, or "etherland"...