Hi Kfir,
I think that Lior's argument is the best and the only one.
To expand on it a bit, ODT or ISO/IEC 26300:2006, "OASIS Open Document
Format for Office Applications" is the only international standard for
office documents. It is unlikely that documents not complying with this
standard will be readable in 20 years.
For simple content it might be possible to use HTML.
The chances of Microsoft Word2003 documents being readable five years from
now is not good.
Point your fiends to http://www.snia-dmf.org/100year/problem.shtml and
similar links to see just how serious the problem of electronic format
obsolescence is. Electronic format obsolescence makes Y2K look simple.
Regards,
- yba
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Lior Kaplan wrote:
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 23:49:32 +0300
From: Lior Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Kfir Lavi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: linux-il <linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il>
Subject: Re: Open standards
Kfir Lavi wrote:
Hi,
The Open University decided to open some of her books to the public.
My friend want to give some arguments why they should publish the books
in open standards.
Please post some arguments that can persuade the head of this project to
go Open.
Does he want the documents to be readable in 5 years? in 10 years?
Using open standards is the only way to make sure the content will stay
open in the future.
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