Simon Phipps
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Simon Phipps
beginning civil dawn ethical great heritage matter preserve servants sure users various
It is beginning to dawn on users that this is a matter of long-term ethical responsibility. We need to preserve our heritage and make sure that when the great things are done by various politicians, representatives and civil servants we will be able to, in 30 to 50 years, actually read the material.
bugs fixing help open software
The first thing they could do is open up their software to get help fixing all the bugs in their products.
holding hope huge improvement waves
We'll see some waves of improvement in 2003, but I'm not holding out hope for a huge rise.
benefits clear concern creating digital document documents formats government history lost rather remain strong users using
We want to make clear what the benefits of using ODF are for government users who have a strong concern the documents they are creating remain a part of their history and heritage, rather than being lost in a digital Alzheimer's as document formats change.
continue drifting file formats loss problem until
We will continue to have this problem with drifting file formats and the loss of society's memory. That will continue to be a problem until there is a multi lateral baseline file format.