It doesn't matter that it's incomplete. They can still use Office without 365, etc. It's not a real principled fundamental policy about all public/government code and documents and data and formats etc.
It doesn't matter what the real reason is. Even for example the cynical idea that it's just to force favoring some other private entity.
Still good.
It's good even purely for the optics that it's even possible, for any reason at all. As it is it does do a lot of direct good already, but even if it did nothing more than make the concept of "we don't need to use office365 or google" less crazy sounding the next time someone tries to take a government open source and open data and open data formats, or even merely reject the servicication of things that don't actually require it, that is already a good thing all by itself.
And the fact that it pushes back against the indoctrination of kids to accept that as just a universal fact of life is just that much better.
It doesn't matter that it's incomplete. They can still use Office without 365, etc. It's not a real principled fundamental policy about all public/government code and documents and data and formats etc.
It doesn't matter what the real reason is. Even for example the cynical idea that it's just to force favoring some other private entity.
Still good.
It's good even purely for the optics that it's even possible, for any reason at all. As it is it does do a lot of direct good already, but even if it did nothing more than make the concept of "we don't need to use office365 or google" less crazy sounding the next time someone tries to take a government open source and open data and open data formats, or even merely reject the servicication of things that don't actually require it, that is already a good thing all by itself.
And the fact that it pushes back against the indoctrination of kids to accept that as just a universal fact of life is just that much better.