Re: [tlug] Stand Up for OpenOffice!!

[Jean-Christophe Helary <fusion@example.com>]

On 30 janv. 07, at 00:22, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> Jean-Christophe Helary writes:
>
> > Well, the point being that there are already quite a few places that
> > have already decided to move to the only ISO/ODF fully supporting
> > application.
>
> Sure.  One of the points I'm interested in investigating is the extent
> to which it's a top-down thing (the Japanese case clearly is, and it
> would seem the same for the French case).  That won't fly in a
> university setting, really.  Academic freedom and all that.

My understanding is that even though the change is a top-down thing->  
practically speaking you can't put anything on an official machine if  
the boss does not agree <- but it comes from a lot of lobying from  
the French community. They are really _that_ active.

> > I think a lot of places that are required to adopt ISO practices
> > will have to move to ODF and thus to OOo in the middle term. ODF is
> > still young as an ISO standard (March)
>
> Yeah, and it will have a "little" brother this coming March, most
> likely, called "ISO OOXML".  So Microsoft will have its own open
> document format with ISO sanction.  We can hope it goes the way of OSI
> :-).

Do you think the 6000 pages will make it through the process ? I've  
heard that some parts of the document were incontradiction with other  
ISO standards etc.

JC