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I was just reading up on the Atomic MPC forums (as I do), when one of the others posted a thread regarding the formation of the OpenDocument Format Alliance. This is a group of companies and organisations, who have decided to move away from proprietry formats such as Microsoft Office’s formats, and instead, use the OpenDocument formats, which are defined by the OASIS group.

The format incidentally, recently got sent to the ISO, and is on its way to becomming an official standard… versus MS Office, which is only a de-facto standard.

For a long time, I’ve been fed up of receiving word documents in emails — many from people who should know better. Even to the point, where I started sending auto-replies to offenders, advising them of the errors in their ways. I’m hoping QUT, and other organisations, pick up on this. The sooner companies realise that there are better alternatives, and move to these more open alternatives, the better.

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