[ Thanks to Marco for this link.
]
Some weeks ago I wrote ‘Everybody’s Guide to OpenDocument’ to
explain, in non-technical terms, how the adoption of open file
formats benefits the lives of all citizens, not only computer
techies. A few days later, I received a request to introduce the
problems of file formats to an unexpected audience, one that is
highly skilled but not in the software field. The Sant’Anna School
of Advanced Studies is a prestigious public university in Pisa,
which is located in wonderful Tuscany. Sant’Anna is specialized in
both social sciences (economics, jurisprudence and politics) and
experimental ones (agriculture, medicine, industrial and computer
engineering). It also hosts the Group of Italian TeX Users and its
annual TeX and LaTeX meeting. Outside of this group and the
engineering department, the rest of the school does not commonly
use Linux. The school administration recently has started to
receive OpenOffice.org files, however, but Microsoft proprietary
formats still lead the game there…”