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  • What the UK Government’s Adoption of ODF Really Means

    by Ben Pearson
    July 28th, 2014

    The UK government recently announced the adoption of ODF and PDF as the standard document formats for all government work. This is a relatively unique approach to open standards adoption as it creates a level playing field for all market participants by removing application restriction based on proprietary formats. Now, citizens, business, and governmental organizations will be more able to adopt competing productivity software far more easily.

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