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ais523 writes:
A judge was interrupted by a ringing mobile phone. So the judge demanded the phone. When nobody admitted owning the phone in question, the judge ordered the doors of the courtroom locked, and when the phone didn't turn up after a search, he sent all 46 defendants present to jail.
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ais523 writes:
As reported by Tectonic, South Africa's new Mininimum Interoperability Standards for Information Systems in government (MIOS) explain the new rules for which data formats will be used by the government; according to that document, all people working for the South African government must be able to read OpenDocument Format documents by March, and the government aims to use one of its three approved document formats (UTF-8 or ASCII plain text, CSV, or ODF) for all its published documents by the end of 2008. A definition of 'open standard' is also included that appears to rule out OOXML at present (requiring 'multiple implementations', among other things that may also rule it out).
