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Re:Government Open Source Office deal set to provide major s... by cwyers on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @10:00AM (#10419143)
> That's a cost and a vendor lockin that will need to be addressed at some point regardless. Governments of all stripes are trying to migrate away from proprietary things like this as it's a risk to governance.

[citation needed]

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Re:Government Open Source Office deal set to provide major s... by chris_wot on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @10:05AM (#10419179)
Probably not a good idea to use [citation needed] as an argument in discussions with the guy who created [citation needed] (me).

1. http://www.ausgoal.gov.au/open-formats

2. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/hm-treasury-and-o...

3. https://www.data.gov/open-gov/

4. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Office_Format (China, that great bastion of transparency!)

I think that will do for now :-)

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Re:Government Open Source Office deal set to provide major s... by cwyers on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @10:14AM (#10419237)
Eh, either you die the hero or you live long enough to become the villain.

Your first link included Office Open XML as one of its office formats. The US site is about data in "machine-readable formats" being released by governement agencies. None of it seems to indicate an effort to move away from proprietary software, just interchangeable formats.

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Re:Government Open Source Office deal set to provide major s... by chris_wot on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @10:24AM (#10419307)
Office Open XML is indeed an open format. And you asked me to provide a citation for my assertion that shows that governments are trying to migrate away from proprietary formats.

For the U.S. URL, I should have probably been more specific: try http://www.data.gov/developers/harvesting

"As part of Project Open Data most government offices are transitioning to make all of their metadata available via a standard schema contained by a data.json file. These are treated just as any other harvest source."

Actually, I should have pointed you to Project Open Data really, found here:

https://project-open-data.cio.gov/

Citations provided!

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