Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 149.149.120.95]
on September 25, 2008 06:06 PM
GOOD for IBM. Good for all of us.
Now what we need is a big push to require any tax paid agency to adopt ODF or some format fully acessible and usable by free software like OpenOffice.
If Microsoft wants to maintain a proprietary format like .doc or some version of it then that's their business and the private businesses that choose to use .doc can keep right on doing that but schools and gov't offices NEED to rely on a combination of ODF, PDF and other fully open standards.
Furthermore I'd like to see Linux used wherever possible to offset the cost of the store bought stuff. If you hadn't the gov't wants to spend another $700 B of our tax dollars to bailout the fatcats on Wall Street (under the premise of helping mortgage holders who are in danger of defaulting) and we've spent another $700B to conquer the Iraqi gov't to deliver those people from Saddam's doom, and then there is the higher cost of everything including hte coming price hikes from our deflating dollar after this bailout.
In otherwords this administration which is supposed to be all about free markets and smaller gov't is making the other side look positively lean and mean and much less socialist.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 149.149.120.95] on September 25, 2008 06:06 PMNow what we need is a big push to require any tax paid agency to adopt ODF or some format fully acessible and usable by free software like OpenOffice.
If Microsoft wants to maintain a proprietary format like .doc or some version of it then that's their business and the private businesses that choose to use .doc can keep right on doing that but schools and gov't offices NEED to rely on a combination of ODF, PDF and other fully open standards.
Furthermore I'd like to see Linux used wherever possible to offset the cost of the store bought stuff. If you hadn't the gov't wants to spend another $700 B of our tax dollars to bailout the fatcats on Wall Street (under the premise of helping mortgage holders who are in danger of defaulting) and we've spent another $700B to conquer the Iraqi gov't to deliver those people from Saddam's doom, and then there is the higher cost of everything including hte coming price hikes from our deflating dollar after this bailout.
In otherwords this administration which is supposed to be all about free markets and smaller gov't is making the other side look positively lean and mean and much less socialist.
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