Jul 242005
In the latest of a number of moves by governments to remove the stranglehold that proprietary file formats have on their infrastructure, the Norwegian Minister of Modernization has said “Proprietary formats will no longer be acceptable in communication between citizens and government”.
How long will it be before industry also wakes up to the problem? There’s no need for proprietary file formats, all it does is increase user lock-in to that specific vendor.
Simon Coles
