[ale] Chinese government recommendation - Linux

[Boris Borisov]

I cannot count how many times is been required to send resume in .DOC
format when I'm applying for IT positions. And this are people from
IT. For government folk will take a lot more.

On 5/18/14, Jay Lozier <jslozier at gmail.com> wrote:
> Requiring open formats is actually OS agnostic but any movement in that
> direction makes FOSS applications competitive. There was a UK proposal to
> require ODF formats for all government documents a few months ago. There was
> some discussion about this on the LO user list and the consensus was it
> would hurt MS as it evens the playing field for all office suites Many
> assumed if adopted that other vendors would be able to add ODF support
> rather easily and FOSS alternatives (LO, AOO, and Calligra) would be
> competing on merits. It would help Linux because the FOSS office suites on
> Linux all use ODF as their native format However, on the LO user list, I
> think the consensus was users would be more likely to switch suites rather
> than OSes if the proposal was adopted.
>
> On 05/17/2014 07:22 PM, Wolf Halton wrote:
>>
>> If several governments start requiring open formats, that will help too.
>> Windows is on a downward trajectory.  They cannot decide if they want to
>> stay on the desktop/laptop horse or fully commit to the phone/tablet
>> horse, so they are about to find themselves on their collective butts
>> between the ruts of the trails of those 2 horses, running away.
>>
>> Wolf Halton
>>
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>> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Jay Lozier <jslozier at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I saw a link to this article on Softpedia (from Ostatic):
>>>
>>> http://news.softpedia.com/news/Chinese-Government-Says-on-TV-that-Windows-XP-Users-Must-Choose-Linux-441889.shtml
>>>
>>> The article noted the Chinese government is beginning to push Chinese XP
>>> users to consider adopting Linux. It did note that many user preferred
>>> applications do not have a Linux version currently available. But often
>>> there are FOSS equivalents available that are suitable for many users. It
>>> also noted that Russia and Germany are actively pursuing Linux.
>>>
>>> My take is this is probably what Linux needs to get market traction; a
>>> very large market to switch to Linux. If the Chinese convert to mostly
>>> Linux hardware vendors and commercial software vendors will need to
>>> support Linux or abandon the Chinese market. Other than the unmentionable
>>> I believe most vendors will follow market trends. If the trends is
>>> towards Linux, they will follow.
>>>
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>>>
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