Since the commonwealth of Massachusetts has decided in September 2005 to use OpenDocument as the standard format for office applications, text documents, spreadsheets, charts and graphical documents like drawings and presentations, a heavy discussion on file formats, openness and freedom of choice arose among IT specialists.
Interestingly even the Society Biblical Society (SBL) sent a specialist to the OpenDocument technical committee: Patrick Durusau. Hence Biblisches Forum was curious to ask him why SBL participated in the development of OpenDocument and which benefits OpenDocument will offer to biblical scholars.
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