After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o' wisdom:
> France: "Non, avec des commentaires!"
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> | Matters soon got out of hand: the shouting seems to have climaxed with the
> | Microsoft representative insulting the management of AFNOR, members of the
> | Defense Ministry, the Justice Ministry, the Interior Ministry, and two
> | members from the Industrial Ministry exclaiming that they were servants of a
> | banana republic!
> `----
Yeah, Microsoft sure is the aggrieved party in this dog fight.
> http://fussnotes.typepad.com/plexnex/2007/08/france-no-with-.html
>
> Microsoft accused of ballot stuffing in standards vote
>
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> | The Russian Government has taken a step towards endorsing ODF through an
> | e-government program that would mandate use of software that conforms
> | to "widely used standards" in all government contracts.
> |
> | According to the Russian Ministry of Information Technologies and
> | Communications "within the project to form an e-government concept in the
> | Russian Federation, support of ISO/IEC 26300: 2006 is planned."
> |
> | The move has been welcomed by the Open Document Format Alliance, which said
> | in a statement that Russia is "sending a message worldwide that software
> | should be affordable, innovative and accessible, now and for the foreseeable
> | future."
> `----
Yeah, Microsoft sure is the aggrieved party in this dog fight.
Wonder why they didn't find (as Massachusetts did) that conversion from
Microsoft to ODF would not work.
Probably, they don't care. They don't need perfect conversion. They
can create /new/ documents in the new format, yes no?
> http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/08/29/microsoft_ooxml_sweeden_rigged_vote/
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Tux rox!
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