Daily Archives: Wednesday, July 23, 2014

  • Document Foundation congratulates UK government

    Steve WoodsOpen Source, Open Standards, Politics, Tech

    ODF file iconThe Document Foundation (TDF), the organisation behind the free and open source LibreOffice productivity suite, is congratulating the UK government for choosing Open Document Format (ODF), in addition to Portable Document Format (PDF) to meet user needs (posts passim).

    “TDF has always been a strong supporter of ODF and a believer in open document standards”, says Thorsten Behrens, TDF Chairman. July 22 will be a date to remember as the culmination of a dream inaugurated when ODF become a ISO standard on November 30 2006. By standardising on ODF and PDF, the UK government is showing the world that it is entirely possible to find a way out of proprietary formats to enhance user freedom”.

    LibreOffice supports both ODF – the suite’s native document format – and PDF (including PDF/A). Furthermore, LibreOffice can handle Hybrid PDF files, which combine the advantages of PDF and ODF by embedding a fully editable ODF document into a PDF without breaking any of the standard characteristics of both formats.

  • The Department of Dirty: coming soon to UK government?

    Steve WoodsMedia, Tech

    The Open Rights Group has launched the Department of Dirty website to draw attention to the filtering (also known as censorship. Ed.) of internet content by UK ISPs, particularly mobile providers.

    To find out if you can access the Dirty Internet via your mobile, phone your provider’s Department of Dirty customer services. Your mobile phone normally has internet filtering enabled by default.

    • 02 – 0800 977 7337
    • EE – 0844 381 6301
    • Vodafone – 08700 700 191 or 191
    • Three – 0333 300 3333 or 3333
    • Giffgaff Access adult content