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wasnt there a similar effort to convert all govt docs to the ODF or something like that. IIRC it was met with an overwhelming opposition from MSFT.
by DesiLurker 6y ago
wasnt there a similar effort to convert all govt docs to the ODF or something like that. IIRC it was met with an overwhelming opposition from MSFT.
- sitkack 6y agoI too was involved in OSS wrt Government in the early 2000s and Office file formats were a huge moat that prevented a lot of adoption of OSS within government. MS did a really good job of pushing off web technologies as threat to their platform. We are only now getting to where we should have been. Netscape was way too naive and MS saw two or three steps ahead and blocked their move.