Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: OpenOffice to be dumped in Freiburg ?

Here, here.  But what about gov'ts mandating simply that the format 
structure be open (without mandating a specific one be used)? That's not 
political IMHO.
Carl


On 11/19/12 3:15 PM, M Henri Day wrote:
> 2012/11/19 VA <cuyfalls@hotmail.com>
>
> > At the risk of getting political, the last thing I want is my government
> > dictating to me what kind of file format to use on my documents.
> >
> > Virgil
> At the risk of getting political, the last thing I want is a multi-national
> corporation, responsible to no one save a few major shareholders and/or top
> executives, which, due to its domination of the market, can effectively
> render it manditory for me to use its proprietary file format....
>
> Regulation of markets, so that they remain as free and accessible as
> possible, is one of the principle tasks of government....
>
> Henri

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