UK government adopts ODF as standard document format(computerworlduk.com)

67 pointsby Tsiolkovskyvor 12 Jahren4 comments

UK government adopts ODF as standard document format

http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/public-sector/3532219/uk-government-adopts-odf-as-standard-document-format/

3 comments

A few comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8070324

Points, but no comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8071936

Points, but no comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8073723

Discussion of when the Australian government made the same decision:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5784968

Tsiolkovskyvor 12 Jahren

What the UK Government’s adoption of ODF really means → http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2014/07/24/uk-odf/

keithpetervor 12 Jahren

The blog post linked to by parent leads to this page

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-standards-fo...

As OA mentions, this changeover will take some time. I think they are serious about it though.

jaweegianvor 12 Jahren

I wonder if this has been made possible by the improved support for ODF in Office 2013. I generally find it to be very good. Much better, at least, than LibreOffice 4 supports Office Open XML.