3 ms·
UK government adopts ODF as standard document format
- ColinWright 12y agoA few comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8070324 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8070324 Points, but no comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8071936 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8071936 Points, but no comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8073723 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8073723 Discussion of when the Australian government made the same decision: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5784968 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5784968
- Tsiolkovsky 12y agoWhat the UK Government’s adoption of ODF really means → http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2014/07/24/uk-odf/ http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2014/07/24/uk-odf/
- keithpeter 12y agoThe blog post linked to by parent leads to this page https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-standards-for-government/sharing-or-collaborating-with-government-documents https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-standards-fo... As OA mentions, this changeover will take some time. I think they are serious about it though.
- jaweegian 12y agoI wonder if this has been made possible by the improved support for ODF in Office 2013. I generally find it to be very good. Much better, at least, than LibreOffice 4 supports Office Open XML.