[fyredge]

There's something about governments moving to open source software that doesn't sit well with me. The only advantage I can see is reduction in expenditure with free software.

I believe we should go a step further and institute open standards. Move away from .docx and to .odt in document submission on government websites. This gives users the flexibility of choice as long as they adhere to a specific standards. This would also hopefully alleviate some of the mess of inconsistent rendering of the same document on different software.

[timbit42]

What are you talking about? ODT is an open standard.