[clug] AGIMO bad bad bad

[Andrew Boyd]

A reality of doing business with government at the moment is being able to do business with them, if that makes sense. The people that make OA purchasing decisions are not the people that most of us deal with most of the time. They are mostly just trying to get through their working day. Standards are a distraction. This is not how it should be, but it is the way it is. 

Best regards, Andrew

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On 14/02/2011, at 12:35 PM, Matt Joiner <anacrolix at gmail.com> wrote:

> I try this on regular basis. I receive "doc" files from government and
> recruiting agencies, when pdf would be more appropriate. Sending pdf's
> also results in a request for those files in doc format.
> 
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Alex Satrapa <grail at goldweb.com.au> wrote:
>> On 20/01/2011, at 09:40 , Robert Edwards wrote:
>> 
>>> Any suggestions on what we on the "outside" can do to turn things
>>> around?
>> 
>> When interacting with the Government, use *only* ECMA-376 compliant documents produced by software that actually complies to the standards. That'll shaft 'em good and proper, since Microsoft Office 14 will not support that standard†
>> 
>> Alex
>> 
>> † http://www.citizendia.org/Office_Open_XML
>> 
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