Denmark Chooses OpenDocument Format

Seahawk was one of several readers to write in with news of Denmark's decision to embrace ODF. "On Friday morning Denmark decided to choose ODF over Microsoft's OOXML. For now the decision is only effective for governmental institutions, but regions and municipalities will most likely follow some time in the future. The decision has unfolded over a period of four years, and many open source advocates were fearing the worst, but it looks like the minister finally caved in and listened to what a lot of people were saying." While in transition away from Microsoft Office formats, the Danes may find use for this new OpenOffice integration guide (sent in by reader AdeleWard).

Comments

Re:Queue the Complimentary Office 2k7 Licenses in.

[oloron]

but, how long will MS stay true to the ODF format, just because its a 'standard' doesnt mean they won't throw their own proprietary sh#t into the mix, they have done this before with other standards

Re:Wrong decision

[Just Some Guy]

As a free market libertarian, I think this move sucks, and anyone with half a brain should too.

As a free market Libertarian, I think you'd be well advised to learn why a group would choose an open standard that multiple vendors can compete for, rather than a closed (ISO can kiss my ass), single-vendor product.

Re:Wrong decision

[mspohr]

I just received a document yesterday from a co-worker in MS Word .doc format (big organization with a homogeneous MS Office deployment). This is a 5 page file with tables and graphs. Something is screwed up with MS Office and I don't see the graphs when I open it with MS Office. However, OpenOffice.org opens and displays the document perfectly.

I only mention this because it happens to me all of the time. Usually with different versions of MS Word but in this case it can't even read its own file from the same version.