Vive La France! Vive L'ODF!

As this post emphasises, they're only asking for comments at the moment - no decision has been made. But simply the idea that part of the French Government could be considering not just using but even mandating OpenDocument Format for document exchange is just astonishing. Even a couple of years of go, it would have been unthinkable.

So, even if nothing happens this time around - remember the firestorm a similar decision in Massachusetts provoked - it is further proof that something major has changed in the world of computing, and that more is about to change.