Netherlands parliament makes open standards mandatory
A lot of the interest in mandating open standards, at least a few years ago, was targeted at the dominance of MS Office. That's interesting nowadays because:<p>- MS Office's default file formats are open standards with open source libraries/ reference implementations
- MS Office (both desktop and web app) can handle ODF very well nowadays.<p>At least for small business and home users, Google docs has become increasingly dominant with surprisingly little concern for long-term document accessibility. For example, Google Drive will only sync down <i>links</i> to Google doc files on desktop. Aside from manually exporting every single document you have in the preferred format, there is no way to get your documents for backup/archival purposes, and good luck switching to another service/software. It would be nice to see a little interest in standards/compatibility for google docs now that so many businesses use it.