If any of you haven't heard of this previously it is an important issue - Governments are finally coming to realise that for the sake of openess and posterity it is neccersary to store data in openly readable formats. As I'm sure you are all aware it has taken a huge amount of presssure over a long period for governments to take this seriously.
<br><br>Just as this is happening, microsoft are tryign to muddy the waters by intorducing a competing open standard which they are not implementing fully or completely so incompatabilities between differernt programs implementing this specification are inevitabel (and for microsoft, probably desirable).
<br><br>Sign the petition to ensure that government information interchange isn't standardised to an unopen standard format, and that the good work in getting governments to this point isn't in vain.<br><br><br>James
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 25/06/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Alain Williams</b> <<a href="mailto:addw@phcomp.co.uk">addw@phcomp.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>The petition is aimed at national ISO bodies, prob worth a minute of your time:<br><br> <a href="http://www.noooxml.org/petition">http://www.noooxml.org/petition</a><br><br>--<br>Alain Williams<br>Linux Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer.
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