EU Should Switch To ODF Standard, Says MEP 111
DTentilhao (3484023) writes "The European institutions should switch to using the Open Document Format (ODF) as their internal default document format, says Member of the European Parliament Indrek Tarand. Speaking at a meeting of the European Parliament's Free Software User Group (Epfsug), last week Wednesday, MEP Tarand said: 'Moving to ODF would allow real innovation, and real procurement.'"
Re:Why switch to that Euro-weenie format? (Score:4, Interesting)
I guess, it will leave EU Independent from a US megacorp?
Re:It makes too much sense (Score:5, Interesting)
EU has managed to pass a network neutrality law as well as cancel all roaming chargers starting 2015. I'd give them more credit than you do.
This is a big deal (Score:5, Interesting)