UK government adopts ODF as standard document format
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UK government adopts ODF as standard document format
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#2A 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:
Re: UK government adopts ODF as standard document format
#3What the UK Government’s adoption of ODF really means → http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2014/07/24/uk-odf/
Re: UK government adopts ODF as standard document format
#4I 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.
Re: UK government adopts ODF as standard document format
#5What the UK Government’s adoption of ODF really means → http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2014/07/24/uk-odf/
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.