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I live in Iceland and ODF isn't being used by any government institution that I know of (and I've worker in/for government quite a lot). Is it possible the NATO
by hugi 13y ago
I live in Iceland and ODF isn't being used by any government institution that I know of (and I've worker in/for government quite a lot). Is it possible the NATO mandated use of ODF applies only to official NATO documents?
- cmircea 13y agoVery likely, the map doesn't say the full story.
- avar 13y agoIn Iceland in particular (and I'm guessing a lot of countries have the same situation) what'll happen is that the Ministry of Education will publish some official recommendation about what formats should be used, or that free/open source software should be "strongly considered". Then what happens in practice is that everyone just ignores that recommendation and buys proprietary software anyway, feigning compatibility with existing systems, re-training costs etc. So in practice a government recommendation about ODF can mean absolutely nothing unless you really make it mandatory. So this map on Wikipedia is effectively useless as an indicator for "adoption". It's probably actually a map of what governments have made feel-good press releases about ODF.
- freehunter 13y agoI live in the US and my government certainly doesn't give me files in ODF. They're either PDF or doc/docx.