Re: [libreoffice-marketing] UK government getting serious about FOSS?

On 02/22/2011 06:42 PM, Ian Lynch wrote:
> http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/enterprise-os-how-hard-can-it-be/2011/02/the-government-gets-really-serious-about-open-source/index.htm
>
> Could be good news for libreoffice?

<quote the article>
Open Government consciously includes Open Source as well as Open 
Standards and Open Data, and this is being driven directly from the top 
of the Coalition Government.
<unquote>

Open Standards and Open Data - does this mean open file formats in the 
standards and access to the data?  If so, that leaves out MS's XML 
formats of the last few years.  There is nothing "open" about that.  
Since, I have been told, that MS's "built-in support" for ODF does not 
produce a clean file that can be read and viewed properly by software 
outside of MS's control.  This makes MS not a viable option for use of 
the open format standard that ODF is meant for.  So that leaves MS out 
of the open standards and open data part of the "ruling", I hope.


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