Call for open source archiving in government

Posted by VISITOR on Sep 15, 2005 4:16 PM EDT
BeerFiles IT; By Stan Beer
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Local open source association, Open Source Victoria (OSV), has called on Australian state government agencies to join the Federal Government in adopting the OpenDocument XML file format, saying its the only way to preserve electronic documents.

According to Benjamin, the difference between Open Source and proprietary documents is all about control. "With OpenDocument, you are in control of what you do with your documents. With Microsoft Office, Microsoft is in control," she said. "Open standards in file formats mean that anyone can access the complete specification and implement software which can read and write OpenDocument files. Microsoft, by comparison, hides information because it wants to make sure people keep using its own office suite, and has embedded legal traps in the licence of its new Word XML format. We recommend that agencies move to OpenDocument, which has already been field-tested by tens of millions of users for five years."

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