Is Google coming back to the open community on document formats? - ComputerworldUK.com

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-12-14

Summary:

"At the ODF Plugfest in London, Google’s head of open source told the audience that work once once again in progress extending OpenDocument support in Google’s products. At the opening of the event, Magnus Falk, deputy CTO for HM Government, told the audience that the decision to adopt ODF (alongside HTML and PDF) as the government’s required document format is now well in hand. When asked by an audience member about various government agencies that currently require submissions from the public in Microsoft-only formats, Falk said that all such departments must make a migration plan now for how they will achieve use of the required formats.  As a result, Google faces significant pressure securing government business in the UK – including in the health and education sectors – now that ODF is a requirement. The support for ODF in Google’s products is weak and uneven. While Docs can import text (ODT) and spreadsheet (ODS) files in ODF 1.1 and 1.2 format (albeit very imperfectly, as Google staff privately admit), only ODF 1.1 export is supported and there’s no support at all for presentation (ODP) files ..."

Link:

http://www.computerworlduk.com/in-depth/applications/3590196/is-google-coming-back-to-the-open-community-on-document-formats/

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Tags:

oa.psi oa.formats oa.policies oa.government oa.uk oa.google oa.floss oa.comment oa.new ru.sparc oa.data

Date tagged:

12/14/2014, 13:12

Date published:

12/14/2014, 08:53