If institutions adopt OD as their internal document format (which is likely to happen) then communications to and from these institutions will have to take place in OD files. Since tools are free and open it will be much easier than anything centered on closed proprietary and expensive formats.
Besides, macro compatibility is not Y2Kx10 because Y2X had to be fixed in the guts of closed OS/applications in a forgotten language, macro compatibility is about shifting from one dialect of Basic to another one in a totally open way. We are talking Y2K/10 here... At most.
Also, Macros are client-side applications, they don't need to be distributed with the delivered document in most cases. Everywhere the document creation process matters, OD will make it because you don't need OOo to make OD files, any XML compliant tool could do it. When the final document matters (ie display) a PDF from OD is all it takes to deliver something clean.
There are no reasons why corporations keen on savings on the middle to long term would not adopt OD in the short term. All the rest is FUD.
Jean-Christophe Helary
On 2005/05/17, at 13:29, Chris Benatar wrote:
Why do you care? The more users of an Open Source product, the more
Open Source standards are used and therefore the standards become
universal.
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