Dotan Cohen wrote: > Truth is, there really is no good solution for protecting against > vendor lockin with formated documents, with the possible exeption of > HTML. Even though Open Document is open source, the major office > suite, MS Office, cannot natively open it. That was a very smart > decision on Microsoft's bahalf, one that may encumber odf for years. > Also, with the new XML-based MS Office format being standardised, I'm > not sure how much future odf has.
MS XML format standardised? ODF has been accepted by ISO and the MS format hasn't. Also, according to what I've read about that "standard" is that it's so long and detailed that it's essentially a specification for MS Office. Also, there's growing movement among some governments and other large users to move away from proprietary file formats. I seem to recall Boeing is one of the companies driving ODF. In the province of Ontario in Canada, students at taxpayer funded schools are supposed to be using StarOffice in their classes. The same is happening at, at least, one of the Toronto universities. The state of Massachusetts is switching to ODF, among several others. > > That said, I cetainly do recommend to interoperabilities' sake that > you do save in odf format. The document can be opened in software for > every major (and most minor) operating systems, not only by Open > Office. I often use Kword, for instance, and it's native format is > also odf. Additionally, MS Office has third-party odf support. The best way to reduce dependency on proprietary products, is to stop using them. I have encouraged several people to switch and most are happier with OO. > > http://what-is-what.com/what_is/open_office.html > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
