On 2002-05-23, Tzahi Fadida wrote: > I think you are missing the point here. > Ever since I read the Peruvian government minister, I realized that there is a good >chance that > the government is <breaking its/>non comliant with the law of freedom of information. > Meaning, any document or processes of information the government create and store, >must > be transparent to the citizens. > By using closed source software or non-standard formats it theoretically break its >own laws. > I think that this is the right direction in the matter, though I am not certain >about any of this. > Are there lawyers in the house?
Yes, a great article :-) ( http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-05-06-012-26-OS-SM-LL ) But which spreadsheet format should we ask them to use? (of course, that should be *their* problem.. .csv would have been ok in this simple case.) ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
