faq  flatforty  contribute  subscribe  configure  search  rdf  main  parent	It's a political issue... by Lochball on Saturday 24/Sep/2005, @09:32 This seems to be a political issue initiated from the Commonwealth of Masssachusetts probably to gain more freedom of selecting more than one software product for the future for governmental work and obligations. The right and only way in my opinion...	Related Links  ·   Articles on KDE Office Suite  ·   Also by Lochball  ·   Contact author Thread Threshold: 10 comments 20 comments 30 comments 40 comments 50 comments 60 comments 70 comments 80 comments 90 comments 100 comments 110 comments 120 comments 130 comments 140 comments 150 comments 160 comments 170 comments 180 comments 190 comments 200 comments 300 comments 400 comments 500 comments 1000 comments
	The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whomever posted them. ( Reply ) Re: It's a political issue... by stumbles on Saturday 24/Sep/2005, @11:54 Hmm I'da never considered document retention and retrieval political. [ Reply To This | View ] Re: It's a political issue... by don on Sunday 25/Sep/2005, @10:44 > Hmm I'da never considered document retention and retrieval political. It's political to the extent that it's economic public policy, and therefore politicians are involved. Anytime significant amounts of money, or influence that may translate into money, are involved there will be politics. [ Reply To This | View ] How about "free speech"? by Brian Thomas on Monday 26/Sep/2005, @05:15 It took the Peruvian official's letter to make this plain to me (and, I suspect, to a lot of people), but there's a serious matter of freedom involved here. The recent embarassment of FEMA and the PTO over IE-only web pages underscored its importance as well: the ability to communicate with government is incontestably an aspect of free speech - certainly more so than porn, or spam, or telemarketing or lots of other detestable things that have hidden behind the First Amendment. The real, non-negotiable issue for a sovereign State (or Commonwealth, though to the rest of us they're a State, thank you very much) is that requiring citizens commmunicating with government to use a file format that is controlled by a single private party, whose use requires a license from that party, is unacceptable. The reasons would be merely theoretical had not that very party itself provided ample proof that they not only could but would make unacceptable use of their advantage. [ Reply To This | View ] The Fine Print: The previous comments are owned by whomever posted them. ( Reply )

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