Norway Mandates Government Use of ODF and PDF

siDDis writes "Earlier this year Slashdot mentioned that Norway was moving towards mandatory use of ODF and PDF. Now it's official: the Norwegian government has mandated the use of open document formats from January 1st, 2009. There are three formats that have been mandated for all documentation between authorities, users and partners. HTML for all public information on the Web, PDF for all documents where layout needs to be preserved and ODF for all documents that the recipient is supposed to be able to edit. Documents may also be published in other formats, but they must always be available in either ODF or PDF."

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Re:Will Norway's stand, stand the test of time?

[bergwitz]

Yeah, go on, report it to the OO.o developers:
1. Ask in the forums, get slammed by smartasses and then be asked to file a bug.
2. Learn the whole process of filing bugs in Open Office.
3. Search to see if someone filed a similar bug, read trough 25 different bug reports with similiar, but not exactly the same problems.
4. File the bug.
5. Get slammed in the comments to the bug for filing the bug improperly.
6. Get the bug marked as a duplicate. Then spend some time arguing whether or not it is a duplicate.
7. Wait five years, maybe they'll fix the bug in the 4.3 release.