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Dutch ODF Plan Could Sideline Microsoft

Posted by kdawson on from the because-it's-our-data dept.

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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  1. linux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    why is there a tux on every article that mentions open anything? what does linux have to do with odf? what about the open source movement that isn't swinging off of linus' nutsack and doesn't feel the need to blindly hate anything non-linux?
     
    more and more it doesn't seem that open source is pro-anything but rather anti-something. when are we going to get off our asses and live off our merits instead of having to bash those that don't follow?

  2. What? A country with BALLS???? by davidsyes · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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"...

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  3. Re:No, it's true... Microsoft did a proof: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Um yeah. We all know. Thanks though. Unless you just figured that out... in which case, good job!

  4. Re:Well no wonder by OldHawk777 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "showing their previous statements to be lies."

    Shows M$ and U$ have much in common (either or both, always the same) "NOT! being able to implement." and/or "showing their previous statements to be lies."

    M$ and U$, the best failures and/or bullshit money can buy to fyck USAll. Any POTUS over the last thirty+ years as obvious examples.

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