From: Leonard Rosenthol (leonardr@lazerware.com)
Date: Thu Sep 18 2003 - 20:07:55 EDT
At 9:40 PM +0200 9/18/03, M. Fioretti wrote:
>Users should simply ask their governments to accept and release all
>electronics documents in truly open formats, independent from any
>single application, even if it is Microsoft office.
Well, the US gov't is doing that - the format is PDF.
As part of a number of eGov initiatives in the US, all
agencies have standardized on PDF as the format for all documents
both released to the public, distributed internally and (most
importantly!) archived for posterity. In fact, as of 2005, the ONLY
format that the National Archives will accept is PDF.
Leonard
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