** Reply to message from Stan Goodman <SPAM_FOILER@hashkedim.com> on Sat, 13 Aug 2005 07:45:15 +0300
> Quite right.
>
> The Congress is not going to involve itself in trivia like file formats. LoC
> has, in any case, made a rational administrative decision. That it is rational
> is a consequence of MS's predatory, cutthroat marketing tactics and the simple
> fact that there is no other format accessible to so many people. This, by the
> way, is not the only instance in which the same format is required by a
> government agency, although apparently this is the first instance that touches
> many users of this forum. What people seem to be waking up to is the fact that
> the battle is long over, and that MS has won it irreversibly.
>
> --
> Stan Goodman
> Qiryat Tiv'on
> Israel
What I find interesting is that they REQUIRED the use of another US Government agency, USPS,
for delivery of the response. There probably is a requirement that they do so... It got me
thinking that with open source and open standards, the US Government could fork off
OpenOffice and/or Firefox and dictate that everyone communicate with the official US Government
version of these products. Billions in software licensing would be saved and they could control
and own the right to view and create their own documentation. They wouldn't have to fork the
source, but could if they wanted to. It's GPL licensed...
My guess is that all the pension funds invested in MSFT would prevent this from happening.
Doug LaRue
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lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores
the fact that it was he, who by peddling second-rate technology, led them
into it in the first place."
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