I should warn you though, the winters tend to be a bit chilly.
Jerry
On Jun 28, 2005, at 2:20 PM, Rob Kersting wrote:
> In other words, if I want to avoid receiving any more of those
> ultra-annoying ".doc" files, I just move to Norway?
>
> It's worth it...
>
>
> Jerry Yeager wrote:
>
>> There was a lot of tech related news yesterday and this story seems to
>> have gotten lost by the mainstream press in all of that (I guess the
>> journalists are too worried about the short term impact of things like
>> Google's stock price -- hmm)
>>
>> http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/27/
>> 1724237&threshold=-1&tid=198&tid=215&tid=109&tid=219
>>
>> This news will have a big impact on things.
>>
>> Norway has announced that they (the Norwegian government) are moving
>> away from allowing documents, etc. that use proprietary file format to
>> those that use open standards (not quite the same thing as open source
>> that you hear about -- think Linux for open source). This is pretty
>> big
>> because it will force software manufacturers (M$, Adobe, etc.) to open
>> up their undecipherable and closed file documents to ones that other
>> softwares can read and write to.
>>
>> While on the surface this may seem to be a small thing, Norway
>> actually
>> has the clout to make it really take off. They are, after all, one of
>> the richest, most technologically advanced countries in today's world,
>> more so than the US is. This could pave the way to allow you to get a
>> word processor that can really read and write files that folks in
>> other
>> states can read and write as well.
>>
>> Jerry
>>
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