UK government adopts ODF as standard document format (computerworlduk.com) 67 points by Tsiolkovsky 12y ago ↗ HN
[–] ColinWright 12y ago ↗ A few comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8070324Points, but no comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8071936Points, but no comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8073723Discussion of when the Australian government made the same decision:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5784968
[–] Tsiolkovsky 12y ago ↗ What the UK Government’s adoption of ODF really means → http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2014/07/24/uk-odf/ [–] keithpeter 12y ago ↗ The blog post linked to by parent leads to this pagehttps://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.
[–] keithpeter 12y ago ↗ The blog post linked to by parent leads to this pagehttps://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 ago ↗ I 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.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 26.5 ms ] threadPoints, but no comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8071936
Points, but no comments: 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://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.