{"id":3445,"date":"2014-01-13T10:48:16","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T10:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=3445"},"modified":"2014-01-14T17:25:17","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T17:25:17","slug":"eu-also-recommends-odf-as-a-standard-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=3445","title":{"rendered":"EU also recommends ODF as a standard format"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2012\/11\/ODF_textdocument_48x48.png\" alt=\"ODF file icon\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-689\" \/>As an answer to a question from a Swedish politician the EU Commission has also confirmed <abbr title=\"Open Document Format\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Odf\">ODF<\/a><\/abbr> as a standard document format, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linux-magazin.de\/NEWS\/EU-empfielt-auch-ODF-als-Standardformat\">Germany&#8217;s Linux Magazin writes<\/a>. However, free software advocates are criticising the step as &#8220;not far-reaching enough&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_3446\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3446\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/23\/2014\/01\/Amelia_Andersdotter_pirat.jpg\" alt=\"image of Amelia Andersdotter MEP\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3446\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amelia Andersdotter MEP<\/figcaption><\/figure>At the end of November 2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amelia_Andersdotter\">Amelia Andersdotter MEP<\/a>, a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pirate_Party_(Sweden)\">Swedish Pirate Party<\/a>, submitted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/sides\/getDoc.do?pubRef=-\/\/EP\/\/TEXT+WQ+E-2013-012989+0+DOC+XML+V0\/\/EN&amp;language=en\">written question<\/a> to the EU Commission in which she dug deeper in two points into what was happening with file formats recommended by the EU. In 2011 Inter-Institutional Committee for Informatics had instructed all departments to support the <abbr title=\"Office Open XML\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ooxml\">OOXML<\/a><\/abbr> standard developed and controlled by Microsoft. Andersdotter inquired what sense this still made when only one manufacturer is implementing the standard and how communication could take place with public sector organisations who are using other standards.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.europarl.europa.eu\/sides\/getAllAnswers.do?reference=E-2013-012989&amp;language=EN\">Commission&#8217;s answer<\/a> was given a few days ago. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/joinup.ec.europa.eu\/community\/osor\/news\/ec-recommends-supporting-open-document-format\">a report on Joinup<\/a>, the EU&#8217;s public sector open source news site, EU Commission Vice-president Maro\u0161 \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d himself responded to the written question and mentioned OOXML and ODF as minimum requirements for document exchange. \u0160ef\u010dovi\u010d maintains that this ensures no vendor lock-in exists or can occur. In addition, public sector organisations should support other file formats in accordance with the best effort principle, i.e. if this is practically possible.<\/p>\n<p>Open source activists, such as the Open Forum Europe are describing the decision as overdue, but are criticising the EU for missing an opportunity for the EU to lead by example for not daring to stipulate ODF as a single open standard. Switzerland&#8217;s Open Systems Group welcomes this first step, Joinup states. Mathias St\u00fcrmer is even hoping that the Swiss government will follow suit, even though it is not within the EU; although it would definitely help to prompt other public sector organisations to make the change to ODF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an answer to a question from a Swedish politician the EU Commission has also confirmed ODF as a standard document format, Germany&#8217;s Linux Magazin writes. However, free software advocates are criticising the step as &#8220;not far-reaching enough&#8221;. At the end of November 2013 Amelia Andersdotter MEP, a member of the Swedish Pirate Party, submitted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,30,15,9],"tags":[24,11,20,23],"class_list":["post-3445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source-software","category-open-standards","category-politics","category-tech","tag-odf","tag-open-standards","tag-politics-2","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3445"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3469,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445\/revisions\/3469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}