Security Expert says YES to ODF
mitch @ 9:56 am on December 9, 2005
I liked his letter so much, I thought I’d link it up from GrokLaw. I must say I agree with his statements 100%. I loved the how simple he made the explination. Makes the reasoning straight and to the point, why people don’t understand this is beyond me. Why the commonwealth is still debating over it is even more beyond me. Microsofts always made promises… who knows if and when they’ll actually come through with it. The best way to keep them honest is to make them use ODF too. (Not through laws/restrictions) Simply, market presures will be fine. After all, if you let them win with their ‘Open’ XML format standard, he who makes the rules can always change them. Pardon the skepticism, but they’ve done it in the past (even recent past), whats to stop them from doing it again? It needs to stop, Mass. has a chance to make a stand and really show Redmond that we’re serious, that we want them to abid by rules of the industry not whatever they feel like. To actually do whats in their *customers* best interests. It really shouldn’t be this hard to fathom.
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