<p dir="ltr">Doc format is often required when there will be editing done. Often recruiters will strip contact data or even change layout. Internally, some places will add notes to résumés.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On May 17, 2014 11:06 PM, "Boris Borisov" <<a href="mailto:bugyatl@gmail.com">bugyatl@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I cannot count how many times is been required to send resume in .DOC<br>
format when I'm applying for IT positions. And this are people from<br>
IT. For government folk will take a lot more.<br>
<br>
On 5/18/14, Jay Lozier <<a href="mailto:jslozier@gmail.com">jslozier@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Requiring open formats is actually OS agnostic but any movement in that<br>
> direction makes FOSS applications competitive. There was a UK proposal to<br>
> require ODF formats for all government documents a few months ago. There was<br>
> some discussion about this on the LO user list and the consensus was it<br>
> would hurt MS as it evens the playing field for all office suites Many<br>
> assumed if adopted that other vendors would be able to add ODF support<br>
> rather easily and FOSS alternatives (LO, AOO, and Calligra) would be<br>
> competing on merits. It would help Linux because the FOSS office suites on<br>
> Linux all use ODF as their native format However, on the LO user list, I<br>
> think the consensus was users would be more likely to switch suites rather<br>
> than OSes if the proposal was adopted.<br>
><br>
> On 05/17/2014 07:22 PM, Wolf Halton wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> If several governments start requiring open formats, that will help too.<br>
>> Windows is on a downward trajectory. They cannot decide if they want to<br>
>> stay on the desktop/laptop horse or fully commit to the phone/tablet<br>
>> horse, so they are about to find themselves on their collective butts<br>
>> between the ruts of the trails of those 2 horses, running away.<br>
>><br>
>> Wolf Halton<br>
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>> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Jay Lozier <<a href="mailto:jslozier@gmail.com">jslozier@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> Hi,<br>
>>><br>
>>> I saw a link to this article on Softpedia (from Ostatic):<br>
>>><br>
>>> <a href="http://news.softpedia.com/news/Chinese-Government-Says-on-TV-that-Windows-XP-Users-Must-Choose-Linux-441889.shtml" target="_blank">http://news.softpedia.com/news/Chinese-Government-Says-on-TV-that-Windows-XP-Users-Must-Choose-Linux-441889.shtml</a><br>
>>><br>
>>> The article noted the Chinese government is beginning to push Chinese XP<br>
>>> users to consider adopting Linux. It did note that many user preferred<br>
>>> applications do not have a Linux version currently available. But often<br>
>>> there are FOSS equivalents available that are suitable for many users. It<br>
>>> also noted that Russia and Germany are actively pursuing Linux.<br>
>>><br>
>>> My take is this is probably what Linux needs to get market traction; a<br>
>>> very large market to switch to Linux. If the Chinese convert to mostly<br>
>>> Linux hardware vendors and commercial software vendors will need to<br>
>>> support Linux or abandon the Chinese market. Other than the unmentionable<br>
>>> I believe most vendors will follow market trends. If the trends is<br>
>>> towards Linux, they will follow.<br>
>>><br>
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>>><br>
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