Beat Journal 5
So it seems the world is catching on. In an article titled,”South Africa adopts ODF as a national standard,” in the Independent Online website, South Africans are enjoying the freedoms of receiving, viewing, editing, sharing, and sending documents as a result of the new national standard of Open Document Formatting. This is revolutionary in that it shows the world that we can benefit from having all the programs and technologies on a remote server, requiring less for the average user. This is highly beneficial for the poor or less knowledgeable. South Africa, known mostly for its part in the Aids pandemic, has accepted technology that we can benefit from on the individual side. The educational system can receive and send out documents using open source technology to help bridge the gap in advancing operating systems… We frankly cannot keep up with the new innovations that large corporations like Microsoft spit out every 3-5 seconds. By using a generic program based on one server, we can submit information via the internet (using the program online) and it will always be compatible – as the operating program itself is already on the server. AMAZING, right? So what now; do we adopt this remarkable innovation? I have.
