Sabi ni Andre noong Tue, Dec 5, 2006 at 10:35 AM:
that being said, i would reiterate that a more practical bill would have been to enforce the use of interoperable protocols and (file format) standards. that would, in my opinion, level the playing field between competing open source and proprietary technologies. kaya lang naman nalo-lock-in ang mundo sa proprietary software (e.g. Windows, MS Office) ay dahil sa proprietary "standards" and formats like the MS Office document formats.
Then you'll be pleased to learn that the ISO has formally ratified the OpenDocument format. There's something in the status (60.60) that if I'm not mistaken *mandates* all governments to adopt OpenDocument as standard. -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT consultant and writer contributor, Free Software Magazine (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com) personal blog at http://descasa.i.ph _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List plug@lists.linux.org.ph (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
