Now the UK’s open standards consultation is over, let’s get back to basics.
All these power plugs didn’t give us more choice – they instead inconvenienced us all as every vendor chose a different “standard” that suited them to power their gear. They have been superseded by the micro-USB connector for powering electronics in Europe.
In just the same way, what we need for document processing is not a choice of standards, but one open standard – ODF, OpenDocument Format.
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