Peter wrote:
Right. And public libraries, county registrars, notaries, lawyers, the
courts, the police, the government standards office and three dozen
other categories of people who keep records for slightly longer than 2-3
years (not to say more than 2000 years in certain cases) should use Word
formats because they are 'compatible'. This year. What about next year ?
We upgrade ? On taxpayer's money ? Suuure we do. How many times do you
think this trick is going to work ? A visit from a nouveau riche
'illustrious' person and we give it another go ? Maybe not.
I am surprised that no opposition politicians have taken this small
matter of squandering public funds on a pyramid scheme of 'upgrading'
and done something about it in their political campaign. After all,
there is a lot of money to be saved. Just think about how many licenses
it costs to keep the .gov.il computers upgraded and 'compatible'.
I think there should be a standard for office file formats, and the
standard should not be owned by MS. MS don't want a standard, they
don't want to be compatible with other softwares. They own the market.
I think there should be a standard so people will choose their office
software for features and not for compatibility. It's not good to the
market to have a monopoly.
Best Regards,
Uri Even-Chen
Speedy Net
Raanana, Israel.
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: +972-9-7715013
Website: www.uri.co.il
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