[Scottish] The Future of the LUG

[Colin McKinnon]

On Friday 12 December 2003 15:06, Willie wrote:
>
> In the short-medium term, we aren't asking them to junk the MS desktops, we
> want them to consider
> (1)using the .RTF file formats
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(Is it Willie's inflamatory postings or the new Spam Law - this week my real 
Email outweighs my Spam!).

Leaving aside the Linux Adovacy thing for a while, I think it makes 
legislative sense to maintain documents in an accessible format for their 
lifetime - we are all bound by laws hundred of years old. It'd be a bit 
embarassing to have to explain that nobody knew the law because the 
word-processor reported that the file format was invalid!

The three document management systems I've come across (apologies if I've 
overlooked someone here Julian) are all intensively Microsoft based.

Anybody out there doing any serious archiving of electronic data?

Colin