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Posted in Africa, Europe, ISO, Microsoft, Open XML, OpenDocument, OpenOffice, Standard at 3:56 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
We recently saw this in Brazil and now it’s another country from the southern hemisphere. Tectonic breaks the news about South Africa adopting ODF as a national standard.
=> recently saw this in Brazil | ↺ South Africa adopting ODF as a national standard
The South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) on Friday approved the Open Document Format (ODF) as an official national South African standard. The adoption of ODF by South Africa opens the way for the businesses and government to adopt ODF more widely in their processes.
This is all very encouraging and also expected, unless some France-style corruptions were to take place. We recently saw a South African minister, Fraser-Moleketi, urging against OOXML and the software patents it’s associated with.
=> France-style corruptions | urging against OOXML and the software patents
In other ODF news, there’s not much of the same level of impact, but the OpenOffice.org team has begun boasting some new icons.
=> ↺ has begun boasting some new icons
In Windows or KDE (Linux), drag OpenOffice.org from the start menu to the desktop. In GNOME, right click the OpenOffice.org menu entry and then choose Add this launcher to desktop.
Support ODF, which is likely to be the only ISO standard when the storm is over. If not, the clouds hanging over OOXML’s head will make it controversial enough to be worth avoiding. Just watch what is already happening in Europe, which has clearly seen enough. █
=> happening in Europe | seen enough
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