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EU Should Switch To ODF Standard, Says MEP

Posted by timothy on from the so-should-the-u.s. dept.

DTentilhao (3484023) writes "The European institutions should switch to using the Open Document Format (ODF) as their internal default document format, says Member of the European Parliament Indrek Tarand. Speaking at a meeting of the European Parliament's Free Software User Group (Epfsug), last week Wednesday, MEP Tarand said: 'Moving to ODF would allow real innovation, and real procurement.'"

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  1. Re:Why switch to that Euro-weenie format? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    You really haven't been paying attention have you?

    OOXML is an outrage and became a "standard" through bribery and corruption - all of which is well documented - and MS Office itself did not actually conform.

  2. Re:Why switch to that Euro-weenie format? by Sique · · Score: 4, Informative

    Red Hat has nothing to do with ODF. StarOffice, the venerable predecessor of OpenOffice and LibreOffice back in the day, had their headquarters in Hamburg, Germany. And ODF is the native file format of OpenOffice and LibreOffice. (And even the database engine has german roots: It's the old SAP DB, originally developped by Software AG and then bought by SAP, both being german companies).

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    .sig: Sique *sigh*