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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."
Does Garbagestan have normalized relations with Petoria yet?
Actually, Garbagestan completely surrounds Petoria. Normalized relations don't make for good ratings on the news, so none exist. We are, instead, working on a Garbagestan/Petoria Peace Plan which involves a Roadmap to Peace. This roadmap goes nowhere and states that when all the residents of Petoria, go off and drown themselves in the sea (and somehow they have to do this without traversing through Garbagestan), we will be at peace.
They refuse to drown themselves in the sea. We refuse to budge from our demands for total annihilation of Petoria. And somehow, we manage to make it look as if Peter is the aggressor and we're just poor Garbagestanians trying to survive his terrible oppression. News ratings are through the roof! Heh heh. Nobody pays attention to the fact that we surround him! Bwaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaahaaa aaahaaaaahaaaah aahaahahhahaha hahahahahah ahahahahah ahahaha!