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ODF guerillas rally for document freedom

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 3 comments
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Twenty-two organizations across 60 countries are taking part in DocumentFreedomDay (DFD) to raise awareness about what happens when formats are no longer supported by proprietary software. Inspired by the five-year-old SoftwareFreedomDay, the DFD initiative is being driven by supporters of the OpenDocumentFormat Alliance and other organizations such as the Free Software Foundation Europe, which is currently hosting the DFD's Web site.

["guerrillas", is an interesting choice of words.. - Scott]

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Comments (3)

gus3 ·
Scott, I think using the term "guerillas" is pretty apt (no Debian pun intended), given the underhanded, sneaky, smoke-filled backroom tactics that Microsoft is trying to pull.
Bob_Robertson ·
Maybe "commando" would be better.
Scott_Ruecker Story submitter ·
I will agree gus3 that guerrillas is an apt word for the context of the article but still, guerrillas is an interesting choice.

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