<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><br>--- On <b>Thu, 20/1/11, Terry Dawson <i><tjd@animats.net></i></b> wrote:<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div id="yiv710833899">
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;">ITWire reports that the Australian Department of Finance are
intending to mandate OOXML as the document standard for whole of
government.</div>
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That would be sad news.<br>
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Terry<br><br></div></div></blockquote>quoted from "Whole-of-Government Common Operating Environment Policy"<br>they want us to fund Mpeg-LA<br>page 12: the system: Codec: A: "Must support a codec capable of video playback as defined by the MPEG-4 part 2 standard" and C: "On systems with an optical drive, must support a codec capable of DVD playback" <br><br>and they also want us to fund the group of unknown mp3 corpations :(<br><div id="yiv710833899"><div> <br></div></div><div id="yiv710833899"><div>tom_a_sparks<br>
"It's a nerdy thing I like to do"<br></div></div></td></tr></table><br>