Η government του Ηνωμένου Βασιλείου έκανε τα πρώτα βήματα για να μεταβεί από το format του Microsoft Office in the ODF format, in an effort to direct the entire government apparatus towards open source.
The proposal to go to Open Document Format has been posted on the Cabinet Office website, which is part of the government that supports the Prime Minister as well as the Deputy Prime Minister and ensures the efficient operation of the government.
The article posted on his website office of the Cabinet, is called “Challenge: Diamovement or collaboration on government documents,” and explains the goal of this argument, which is sure to give Microsoft headquarters a headache.
“Users in this challenge including citizens, businesses and distribution partners who need to exchange information with the government should use editable documents. Users are also officials in government departments who need to share and work on documents together," the UK proposal says.
The article also mentions the expected benefits of such a bold move. Most importantly, users (whoever they are) should not purchase the software in order to submit documents to government officials or services because of the format required in the document.
Documents that must now be compatible with Open Document Format are: text editing, spreadsheets, and presentations. If you look closely, these are just Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
There are a number of free available office suites available for download already, such as LibreOffice and OpenOffice, with which you can save documents in this format.
Although other individual cities around the world had been getting the same? decisions in the form of open source documents, the UK Government is the largest organization that has expressed its interest in open source, although at present it refers only to Open Document Formats.
It's made of safe να πούμε ότι ήδη ένας αριθμός οργανώσεων ανοικτού κώδικα έχουν εκφράσει την υποστήριξή τους για την απόφαση αυτή, συμπεριλαμβανομένου του Ιδρύματος εγγράφου. “Το Ίδρυμα εγγράφου υποστηρίζει με ενθουσιασμό την πρόταση της κυβέρνησης του Ηνωμένου Βασιλείου να υποστηρίξει και να υιοθετήσει το ODF 1.1 και ODF 1.2, μαζί με την HTML 4.01 και HTML5, CSV και TXT, για την ανταλλαγή ή τη συνεργασία με κυβερνητικά έγγραφα” says a comment under the UK article.
