Comments on: OpenDocument Format Victorious in South Africa http://techrights.org/2008/04/21/south-africa-odf-standard/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: SubSonica http://techrights.org/2008/04/21/south-africa-odf-standard/comment-page-1/#comment-8330 SubSonica Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:28:12 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2008/04/21/south-africa-odf-standard/#comment-8330 Maybe far fetched but possible; anyway: a movement worth keeping an eye on, time will tell: 1 South Africa choses ODF/ISO26300 (and NOT MSOOXML) as National standards: http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2365 http://www.oss.gov.za/MIOS_V4.1_final.pdf (page 19) (BTW, this happens little after the ISO battle and after the south african minister of public service and administration slammed software patents and Microsoft for not adopting ODF: http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2304) 2 Jason Matusow (Microsoft's director of corporate standards) flies to South Africa to do "external outreach" http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonmatusow/archive/2008/04/23/participation-in-standards.aspx (maybe "covert-ops" at policy level rather than just "outreach are in the making?" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_ops ) Join the dots to get the bigger picture....is a reversal of the policy favouring ODF in the horizon? Microsoft no doubt sooner or later will attempt it. Maybe far fetched but possible; anyway: a movement worth keeping an eye on, time will tell:

1 South Africa choses ODF/ISO26300 (and NOT MSOOXML) as National standards:
http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2365

http://www.oss.gov.za/MIOS_V4.1_final.pdf (page 19)

(BTW, this happens little after the ISO battle and after the south african minister of public service and administration slammed software patents and Microsoft for not adopting ODF: http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2304)

2 Jason Matusow (Microsoft’s director of corporate standards) flies to South Africa to do “external outreach”
http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonmatusow/archive/2008/04/23/participation-in-standards.aspx
(maybe “covert-ops” at policy level rather than just “outreach are in the making?”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_ops )

Join the dots to get the bigger picture….is a reversal of the policy favouring ODF in the horizon? Microsoft no doubt sooner or later will attempt it.

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