On Thu, 23 May 2002, Christoph Bugel wrote: > 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.)
You mean that it would have been smarter to approach them with: "I have Office95 (97?) instaled, and I can't read your time table. -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir ================================================================= 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]
