Campaign for Document Freedom: Difference between revisions

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"Previous proprietary document formats have become difficult or impossible to read within little more than a decade. There is no reason to believe this trend will not continue if allowed so to do. Without open standards for our documents we are likely to inflict a 'digital dark-age' on our descendants when they discover that they are unable to read any of the sources for their history, such as Government records, acts of Parliament, property title deeds, scientific research papers, and family histories. They will not forgive us if we fail to

act to protect them now, but instead allow another generation of poorly specified proprietary standards to become widely adopted." - from [http://www.ukuug.org/ooxml/ UKUUG press release]

'''Why Document Freedom?'''

We live in an age in which paper documents increasingly get replaced by electronic records. Document freedom is fundamental for your documents to outlive the application you are currently using and allows you to choose and change applications freely.

'''Document Freedom and Democracy'''

Electronic records kept today include records of your government, such as tax and legal records or minutes of parliamentary proceedings. Making sure that such records remain in the control of the government is essential for a functioning democracy. The same is true for all interactions between citizens and their government, which should never depend on monopolies or on the proprietary product of a single company.

'''How to achieve Document Freedom?'''

Make a stand by saving your documents in ODF today. If your application does not support ODF, get one of the ODF supported applications like OpenOffice.org, KOffice, AbiWord, etc

==Events==

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 "Previous proprietary document formats have become difficult or impossible to read within little more than a decade.  There is no reason to believe this trend will not continue if allowed so to do.  Without open standards for our documents we are likely to inflict a 'digital dark-age' on our descendants when they discover that they are unable to read any of the sources for their history, such as Government records, acts of Parliament, property title deeds, scientific research papers, and family histories.  They will not forgive us if we fail to
 act to protect them now, but instead allow another generation of poorly specified proprietary standards to become widely adopted." - from [http://www.ukuug.org/ooxml/ UKUUG press release]
+'''Why Document Freedom?'''
+We live in an age in which paper documents increasingly get replaced by electronic records. Document freedom is fundamental for your documents to outlive the application you are currently using and allows you to choose and change applications freely.
+'''Document Freedom and Democracy'''
+Electronic records kept today include records of your government, such as tax and legal records or minutes of parliamentary proceedings. Making sure that such records remain in the control of the government is essential for a functioning democracy. The same is true for all interactions between citizens and their government, which should never depend on monopolies or on the proprietary product of a single company.
+'''How to achieve Document Freedom?'''
+Make a stand by saving your documents in ODF today. If your application does not support ODF, get one of the ODF supported applications like OpenOffice.org,  KOffice, AbiWord, etc
 ==Events==